Johnny and the Dead: The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy

There aren't many places to hang out in Blackbury, so twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell likes to take walks in the local cemetery. After all, it's green, it's got birds and foxes-it's full of life. Then Johnny discovers that he, and no one else, can see and speak with the cemetery's "post-living residents." They are not too happy about United Amalgamated Consolidated Holdings's plans to pave over the cemetery and build offices. The situation looks grave, and Johnny's the only one who can speak up on the dead's behalf.