The Cemetery Sleeper is a middle grade novel about a boy named Freddy Pesterfield who is lured into sleepwalking to an abandoned cemetery by a vengeful ghost. Freddy desperately seeks a cure for ghosts after he repeatedly wakes up in the graveyard. He enlists his superstitious friend and his wary cousin to help him find a remedy against the ghost named Tump. As Freddy learns about Tump’s past through his dreams, he begins to suspect his older relatives were involved in Tump’s drowning. Freddy must uncover the family’s secrets before Tump takes his revenge on Freddy. The Fourth of July family gathering ends with a shocking grand finale when Freddy faces Tump in a fight for his life.