The Ghost's Grave

Josh is to spend his summer with his eccentric Aunt Ethel and he isn’t pleased. Carbon City, Washington isn’t anywhere like Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Josh is from.

Aunt Ethel lives out by an old cemetery in an old two-story wooden house. No computer, no TV, 18 miles to the nearest movie house and there isn’t any nearby stores. Out in the middle of nowhere.

The real bitter pill for Josh is no baseball. He was scheduled to plat on a summer league, but things changed.

When Josh found a tree house out on the property, things didn’t seem quite as bad. A little sweeping and dusting and it was a nice place to be.

Then came the cat! She showed up scrawny and scruffy, looking for food. And then came the kittens.

And then came Willie, who show more had been waiting for years for someone to help him finally be at peace. Willie is a ghost.

Josh finds he learns a lot of Carbon City’s history and a lot about himself. He also stumbles on some buried money and solves that mystery. Summer at Aunt Ethel’s is definitely nothing like summer in Minneapolis!

Peg Kehret’s books are entertaining for kids and adults. Humour, adventure and some everyday situations make a nice mix of a read. show less

The Ghost's Grave
by Peg Kehret
Narrated by Charles Carroll
This is a charming, funny, and adventurous ghost story with a peg-leg ghost, an evil robber, and a crazy sweet aunt.
A 12 year old boy is sent to stay with a very elderly aunt he doesn't know in the very deep woods. He finds his aunt is a bit different but nice. The tree house also is occupied with a person who has died and can't cross over yet.
A very fun story!

This book is so boring my entire class came to me as a united front and begged we read something else instead. I agreed and conceded (though finished it on my own at a later date). It's incredibly juvenile for its intended demographic and the characters are very unbelievable.

I first looked at this book and thought it as just another creepy horror story. I was very suprised after reading it. The story tells about a boy named Josh who has just been accepted to his baseball team! Gues what? His parents are leaving on a vacation and he must go spend his summer with his great Aunt. Josh arrives in a deserted, nonelectronioc, nature filled town. His great Aunt believes her sister has been reincarnated as a peacock!
Josh gets used to it until he discovers a treehouse. Meanwhile, there had been a report of stolen money from a bank. Josh gets suspicious and decides to investigate. Then he meets a ghost. How creepy!

Things are not going the way Josh had planned. He was supposer to play ball this summer with his buddies. Instead, his parents are traveling, and he is staying with his old aunt in a small town. The aunt is a bit eccentric, as the aunts in most of these stories seem to be.
The summer turns out to be pretty wild, as Josh meets the ghost of a minor who wants him to dig up a leg and bury it with the rest of his body.

What Josh finds as he digs solves a bigger mystery for the town, and threatens to ruin the plans of the thief who buried it there, unless he can stop Josh.

My cousin recommended me this book and it was pretty good. I thought it was entertaining to read with all the suspense towards the end.

This book was very interesting. It is about a boy name Josh. Josh decides to try out for his towns summer baseball team and he is accepted. Meanwhile his mom and brother are planning on taking a job interview and leave him with his Aunt Ethel he has never met before. She lives in an deserted and basically forgotten town. It is called Carbon City and here he has many adventures one in which he meets a ghost!