Books like The Graveyard Book
Nobody Owens, a boy raised by ghosts in a graveyard after his family is murdered, grows up learning the ways of the dead, while the man who killed his family is still looking for him.
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Gallant
Olivia Prior, a mute orphan at a grim school for girls, receives a letter from an uncle she never knew inviting her home to Gallant, the family estate, but no one there expected her, and the house holds a shadow that only she can see.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A man returns to his childhood home for a funeral and remembers the impossible things that happened when he was seven, at the farmhouse at the end of the lane.
Coraline
Coraline finds a door in her new home that leads to another version of it, where her Other Mother has black button eyes, and everything is better, until the Other Mother decides to keep her.
Belladonna
Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow, orphaned as a baby and passed between guardians who keep dying, though she herself cannot, is taken in by the Hawthornes of Thorn Grove, where someone is poisoning the family, and hunts the culprit with the help of Death, whom only she can see.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
An orphaned boy raised under a staircase learns on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard, and takes a train to a Scottish school that has been waiting for him.
Elatsoe
Ellie, a Lipan Apache teenager in Texas who can raise the ghosts of dead animals, her old dog Kirby above all, sets out to find who killed her cousin when his ghost visits her in a dream.
Starling House
Opal, a broke young woman raising her brother in a dying Kentucky town, takes a job cleaning the strange old Starling House for its lone heir, and learns what the house is keeping in.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
A Florida teenager flies to a Welsh island following a clue in his dead grandfather's photographs and walks into 1940 and a home for children whose peculiarities have to be hidden from the monsters hunting them.
The Magic Toyshop
An orphaned teenager is sent to live with her tyrannical toymaker uncle in a sinister South London shop.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Nils Holgersson, a lazy, cruel farm boy, is shrunk to the size of a thumb by an elf and carried across Sweden on the back of a goose flying north with a flock of wild geese.
Aunt Dimity's Death
Down on her luck in Boston, Lori Shepherd learns that Aunt Dimity, the heroine of her late mother's bedtime stories, was a real Englishwoman who has left her a Cotswolds cottage and a mystery to unravel.
James and the Giant Peach
James Henry Trotter, an orphan living miserably with two cruel aunts, is given a bag of magic crystals, and a peach on the old tree in the garden starts to grow, and grow.