The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

There was something of a controversy when this book won the 2009 Newbery Award; it's one of those books that kids probably love and adults don't understand -- or find scary or strange or downright weird. It begins with the murder of a family which in and of itself is pretty awful. A baby is the only survivor, and he manages to crawl to a nearby graveyard, when the denizens (read dead people) decide to raise him. Named Bod (for Nobody), the baby grows to a teen among the ghosts and spirts of the graveyard.

Sounds weird, right? However, it's a wonderful book. Gaiman (author of Coraline) creates a fascinating world with its own believeable rules, and the tension rises as the killer closes in on Bod in his graveyard. Read it!