How do I upgrade to current OS for late 2008 alum. macbook (10.5.5)?

Hi there,
My boyfriend recently purchased a factory restored late 2008 aluminum macbook (10.5.8, 2 GHz Intel Core Duo 2 processor and 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3) and would like to upgrade the OS. Please correct me if I'm wrong but it seems as though "you can't get there from here," i.e. we wouldn't be able to download the newest OS with the current 10.5.8. Does anyone have ideas on how we can update this OS to something less ancient?
Thanks!

Back up your data, click here, and read the entire page. Mac OS X 10.7 and newer don't support PowerPC software such as Microsoft Office 2004.
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