Orville "Ace T" Turner has a hard time staying out of trouble but after moving to the spooky seaside town of New Salem, Maine, he soon discovers his troubles are only just beginning. Because on the day he walks past the deserted old mansion on Tuttle Street, he sees a mysterious and terrifying sight-the ghost of the Dragon Boy! Then when bullies from school start disappearing, Orville quickly finds himself right in the middle of a ghostly mystery. Together with a band of misfit ghost hunters who call themselves the Nightmare Club, a strange girl named Alliecat who wants to shove her way into the group and a potbellied pig named Barnabas, he must solve the riddle of the Dragon Boy's ghost before it claims its final victim and vanishes into the night forever!

EXCERPT

Twelve-year-old Orville Turner had only been going to New Salem Middle School a week and already he had got-ten his second detention. His mom was going to kill him. Why couldn’t he just stop getting into fights with other kids? Why was he so angry all the time?

He walked along the train tracks that ran parallel to the deserted street that was a short cut to his own, two streets over. The street, Tuttle Street, was mostly woods and had only one house, a rambling old mansion in which no one lived. He’d missed the bus and hadn’t dared call his mom at work to have her come pick him up. It was bad enough she was going to let him have it when she got home, why get punished any sooner? He kicked a pebble and frowned, not looking forward to the speech she was going to give him tonight.

The air in New Salem, Maine, smelled liked clams, the breeze sweeping in off the sea, and he hated the odor. He hated everything about this town. Since they’d moved here from Colorado only two weeks ago, he had made no friends, but on the plus side at least he didn’t have to listen to the yelling anymore. His dad liked to yell, mostly at his mom, but sometimes at him, too. Orville had spent a lot of time wondering just what he had done to make his dad hate him so much, and what made his dad act so mean to his mom. He’d never been able to come up with a good answer.