"I am simply a 'book drunkard'. Books have the same irresistable temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them." (L. M. Montgomery)
If Kipling's 'Jungle Book' had a contemporary counterpart, this would be it: an orphaned infant boy raised in a cemetery by the spirits of the deceased. This (comparative) vein alone makes this a good read, and the judges thought so too, as it won the Newbery Medal in 2009.