Kehret, Peg. The Ghost’s Grave. New York: Scholastic, 2005.
“The night I moved in with Aunt Ethel, she shot a bat in the kitchen.” So begins the story of Josh McDowell, a twelve-year-old boy who is sent to spend the summer with his stepfather’s great-aunt. Josh dreads spending the summer with someone he does not know and missing out on summer baseball just because his mother and stepfather have to go to India to work. Aunt Ethel is an eccentric old woman who hates bats, makes the best cakes in the county (thanks to sour cream), and believes that her late sister has been reincarnated as a peacock. In an effort to have some fun, Josh asks about a tree house in which his stepfather used to play. The tree house turns out to be the beginning of a summer Josh will never forget. In just a few days, Josh takes in a stray cat, meets a ghost, defiles a grave, discovers a box of stolen money, and becomes a hero.
The Ghost’s Grave kept my interest from start to finish. It was a bit predictable, but very entertaining. There was just enough intrigue to keep my interest piqued without making me stressed about the possible outcomes. Students who love mystery and adventure should enjoy reading this book.
What others have to say…
“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.”
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