The Ghost's Grave

Kehret, Peg. 2005. The Ghost's Grave. New York: Penguin Group.






Summary
Josh is twelve years old and is sent to a small town to live with a distant relative for the summer. He thinks it is going to be the boringest summer of his life, but finds out it is just the opposite! On his first night there the seventy year old aunt that he is staying with shoots a bat in the kitchen. Things only get more exciting from there. He meets a ghost in the tree house out back, he finds a mother cat and her kittens, and then solves the town mystery- almost getting killed in the process.

Impressions
This a really good book. It has mystery and humor all rolled up into one good story. The characters are well developed and believable, and it has a fast paced plot. Children will love the entertaining characters and the scary plot.

Reviews

School Library Journal( October 01, 2005 ; 0-525-46162-0 ) "Gr 4-7-This fast-paced and engaging book should be a hit with fans of ghost stories. Josh is a rich character to whom readers can relate and they will cheer him on as he searches for the truth."-Alison Grant, West Bloomfield Township Public Library, MI Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Booklist( May 15, 2005 ; 0-525-46162-0 ) Gr. 5-8. By turns comic and scary, Kehret's seventeenth novel is rooted in both the supernatural and the gritty reality of coal miners' lives in the first years of the last century." --Connie Fletcher Copyright 2005 Booklist