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…
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
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…
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