Twelve-year-old Ollie Sparks isn't expecting his first friend in town to be a ghost, but together they team up to save his mother's theatre and take down the school bully. Twelve-year-old Ollie Oxley is moving-again. His mother is starting another new job, this time at the Bingham Theater in Granite City, California. Moving all the time means Ollie has struggled in the making friends department, but he quickly connects with a boy named Teddy. To Ollie's surprise, though, his first friend in town is a little more ... unique than those he's made in the past. Teddy is a ghost. Befriending someone who lived during the famous California Gold Rush sure does make things interesting for Ollie. But when the school bully, Aubray, targets Ollie and it looks like the Bingham Theater might close, the stakes couldn't be higher. Can Teddy and Ollie work together to take down Aubray, save his mother's job, and solve a mystery years in the making? AGES: 8 to 12 AUTHOR: Lisa Schmid is an author, a stay-at-home mother, and a pug wrangler. When she is not scaring up ghostly adventures, she is most likely scaring up fun with her husband and son. She lives in Folsom, California, home of the 1849 Gold Rush.