The Ghost's Grave By Peg Kehret
The Ghost’s Grave by Peg Kehret
Student Reviewer:
The Ghost’s Grave, by Peg Kehret was written in 2005. The author is best known for writing children’s books. Ms. Kehret loves animals and always includes animals in her books. In The Ghost’s Grave, she writes about Josh who was responsible for caring for a stray cat and her kittens. The story also includes Florence who is a peacock. The genre of the book is Adventure and Mystery.
The story takes place in Carbon City which is an old mining town in Washington
State. There are nine characters in the book with the main characters being a 12 year old boy named Josh, Josh’s Aunt Ethel, a ghost named Wilbur Martin, and a mean criminal named Mr. Aaron Turlep.
Josh is so excited about his …show more content…
summer because he is going to be on the summer baseball team. He rushes into his house to tell his mother and stepfather the great news, only to find out that his parents were going to India for work.
His Mom told Josh that he would have to stay with his Aunt Ethel in Washington State. Josh is not happy about spending his summer in the middle of nowhere with an old woman he’s never met. When he arrived, he finds Aunt Ethel to be a little scary and she does not have a TV. When they get to her house, they discover a bat has flown inside and Aunt Ethel has a fit, running around, trying to kill it. She gets her shotgun out and kills the bat which gets bat blood all over the cake she made for Josh.
Aunt Ethel is a bit different but very kind and tells Josh about a tree house in the woods that he could explore. Josh finds the tree house and learns that it is haunted by a ghost named Willie. Willie is the ghost of a one-legged miner who died in a mining explosion a hundred years earlier. Josh agrees to help Willie who asks him to dig up his leg from the cemetery and rebury it with the rest of him. When Josh goes to the cemetery to dig up Willie’s leg, he brings flowers with him so that no one would suspect why he was digging in the grave. While digging in the grave, Josh hits something metal with his shovel. In the grave with Willie’s leg, he finds a box of money. Josh removed the
leg bones and buried them with the rest of Willie’s body.
Josh brought the box of money back to Aunt Ethel’s house. He knew that there was an unsolved mystery in Carbon City about some missing money that was raised for the animal shelter. Aunt Ethel was at the hospital. Mr. Turlep who had buried the box years earlier, found out that Josh had the money. He went to Aunt Ethel’s house wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun. He demanded that Josh give him the money. Josh tried to call 911 but the phone wires were cut.
As this was happening, Mrs. Morris knocks on the door to pick up a cake that Aunt
Ethel had made for her. Mr. Turlep hid behind the couch. Josh went to the kitchen, got her cake, and asked if she wanted to see it. Josh had written the word HELP on the cake.
Mrs. Morris realized that Josh needed help by the look on his face. After Mrs. Morris left,
Mr. Turlep continued to threaten Josh. Josh screamed for Willie to come and help him.
Suddenly, the phone flew on the ground, plates fell from the cabinets, and Aunt Ethel’s sister named Florence who had returned from death as a Peacock screamed. Mr. Turlep became scared and ran out of the house with the box of money. The police arrived and
Page 2 caught Mr. Turlep as he was leaving. In his car the police found a ski mask, gun, and box of money. The mystery of the missing money was solved. The police now knew who stole the money that was raised for the animal shelter.
The author of The Ghost’s Grave, Peg Kehret, has won many awards for her children’s books and also from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. She loves to volunteer at her local animal rescue shelter. She always includes animals in her books. Most of Ms. Kehret's books are based off of what happened in her life, like The Ghost's Grave, there used to be a small cemetery up the road where she lived as a kid with the same name on a grave stone as the one in the book. Ms. Kehret lives in Washington State with her dog and two cats who are all rescued animals.
I believe the theme of the book is to always be positive and don’t ever give up. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read books filled with adventure and mystery. The Ghost’s Grave was fun to read.
My overall rating of the book is awesome. The beginning of the book was a little slow in getting started but once Josh met Willie the story really became so good I could barely put the book down.
Student Reviewer:
The Ghost’s Grave, by Peg Kehret was written in 2005. The author is best known for writing children’s books. Ms. Kehret loves animals and always includes animals in her books. In The Ghost’s Grave, she writes about Josh who was responsible for caring for a stray cat and her kittens. The story also includes Florence who is a peacock. The genre of the book is Adventure and Mystery.
The story takes place in Carbon City which is an old mining town in Washington
State. There are nine characters in the book with the main characters being a 12 year old boy named Josh, Josh’s Aunt Ethel, a ghost named Wilbur Martin, and a mean criminal named Mr. Aaron Turlep.
Josh is so excited about his …show more content…
summer because he is going to be on the summer baseball team. He rushes into his house to tell his mother and stepfather the great news, only to find out that his parents were going to India for work.
His Mom told Josh that he would have to stay with his Aunt Ethel in Washington State. Josh is not happy about spending his summer in the middle of nowhere with an old woman he’s never met. When he arrived, he finds Aunt Ethel to be a little scary and she does not have a TV. When they get to her house, they discover a bat has flown inside and Aunt Ethel has a fit, running around, trying to kill it. She gets her shotgun out and kills the bat which gets bat blood all over the cake she made for Josh.
Aunt Ethel is a bit different but very kind and tells Josh about a tree house in the woods that he could explore. Josh finds the tree house and learns that it is haunted by a ghost named Willie. Willie is the ghost of a one-legged miner who died in a mining explosion a hundred years earlier. Josh agrees to help Willie who asks him to dig up his leg from the cemetery and rebury it with the rest of him. When Josh goes to the cemetery to dig up Willie’s leg, he brings flowers with him so that no one would suspect why he was digging in the grave. While digging in the grave, Josh hits something metal with his shovel. In the grave with Willie’s leg, he finds a box of money. Josh removed the
leg bones and buried them with the rest of Willie’s body.
Josh brought the box of money back to Aunt Ethel’s house. He knew that there was an unsolved mystery in Carbon City about some missing money that was raised for the animal shelter. Aunt Ethel was at the hospital. Mr. Turlep who had buried the box years earlier, found out that Josh had the money. He went to Aunt Ethel’s house wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun. He demanded that Josh give him the money. Josh tried to call 911 but the phone wires were cut.
As this was happening, Mrs. Morris knocks on the door to pick up a cake that Aunt
Ethel had made for her. Mr. Turlep hid behind the couch. Josh went to the kitchen, got her cake, and asked if she wanted to see it. Josh had written the word HELP on the cake.
Mrs. Morris realized that Josh needed help by the look on his face. After Mrs. Morris left,
Mr. Turlep continued to threaten Josh. Josh screamed for Willie to come and help him.
Suddenly, the phone flew on the ground, plates fell from the cabinets, and Aunt Ethel’s sister named Florence who had returned from death as a Peacock screamed. Mr. Turlep became scared and ran out of the house with the box of money. The police arrived and
Page 2 caught Mr. Turlep as he was leaving. In his car the police found a ski mask, gun, and box of money. The mystery of the missing money was solved. The police now knew who stole the money that was raised for the animal shelter.
The author of The Ghost’s Grave, Peg Kehret, has won many awards for her children’s books and also from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. She loves to volunteer at her local animal rescue shelter. She always includes animals in her books. Most of Ms. Kehret's books are based off of what happened in her life, like The Ghost's Grave, there used to be a small cemetery up the road where she lived as a kid with the same name on a grave stone as the one in the book. Ms. Kehret lives in Washington State with her dog and two cats who are all rescued animals.
I believe the theme of the book is to always be positive and don’t ever give up. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read books filled with adventure and mystery. The Ghost’s Grave was fun to read.
My overall rating of the book is awesome. The beginning of the book was a little slow in getting started but once Josh met Willie the story really became so good I could barely put the book down.