A baby boy narrowly escapes to the graveyard up the hill after the rest of his family is murdered. Adopted and raised by the spirits of the dead residents there, he struggles between the need to stay in the graveyard for safety, and the desire to go out in to the living world, finding adventures and lessons on both sides of the fence.

I absolutely loved this book; a real page-turning, heart-warming, seat-gripping tale. As a parent, and perhaps more so simply as a mortal, I was moved to tears by the moral of the story as it was delivered to us in one last, beautiful package at the end.

I felt that a critical plot point was a little weak, and a major subplot was vastly unexplored and perhaps a bit unoriginal, but these weren't big problems for me.

Simple enough (if not too scary) for children, I can hardly wait for my daughters to be old enough for me to read this with them.