I am looking for the title of a book I read some years ago. If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. It was about the childhood years of a boy as remembered by him years later. As such it had some strange parts even though it was mostly a common story. I remember 3 particular parts.
1) his dog dies at the vets and he wills it to live but it become more like a zombie dog and eventually he gives it to a neighbourhood boy who died some years before.
2) there was a teenager with a fast car who died in an accident and his ghost drives around the highways and I think he saves the boy at one point.
3) there are rummors of a huge aligator in the river and at one point the levys break and there is a flood in the house. The boy is on the kitchen table and has to fight the aligator off with a broomstick.
My family think I'm nuts, so if you can help me find this book again and prove it exists I would be ever so greatful.
1) his dog dies at the vets and he wills it to live but it become more like a zombie dog and eventually he gives it to a neighbourhood boy who died some years before.
2) there was a teenager with a fast car who died in an accident and his ghost drives around the highways and I think he saves the boy at one point.
3) there are rummors of a huge aligator in the river and at one point the levys break and there is a flood in the house. The boy is on the kitchen table and has to fight the aligator off with a broomstick.
My family think I'm nuts, so if you can help me find this book again and prove it exists I would be ever so greatful.