Synopsis: Graveyard Children

Two lonely twelve-year-olds meet in small-town Archer, Ontario, and must navigate the ins and outs of gradeschools, bullies, growing up and letting go.

Myles McKee is having a rough year. His parents are in the middle of an ugly divorce, and his mother drags him halfway across the province to live with his tough-as-nails Grandma LouLou. The kids in his new class hate him, and he desperately misses his father and his old life. Just when Myles thinks this will be the worst year of his life, he begins an unlikely friendship with Ally Fisher. Ally is bold, bossy, and dead. She hangs out in the cemetery down the road from Grandma LouLou's house, plays on the swings on the school playground, and wanders the aisles of the supermarket. Ally refuses to move on to the next life, terrified of what she and the other ghosts of Archer call “The Forgetting.” How can she bare to forget her old life- and what if her old life forgets her?

Together, Myles and Ally learn that growing up can be both painful and wonderful, whether or not you have a heartbeat.