Welcome to Kersville, a town with a spooky history and a collection of ghosts and spirits who are major mischief-makers. Most kids spend their days without ever seeing or dealing with a ghost, but some kids get stuck with a haunt. When that happens, they call Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol. There's no job too spooky, icky, or risky for Desmond.

I'm not like that at all. My name's Andres Miedoso. I'm Desmond's best friend and I'm afraid of everything.

When you go to the beach with Desmond Cole, it isn't all sand, surf, and sun. It's more like, ghosts, ghouls, and gloom. And yes, being haunted while there's sand in your swimsuit is annoying, but at least you can always count on one thing--beach life is never boring with Mersurfers around.

With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.

This is volume 3 in Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol .

This book has been graded for interest at 5-9 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 128 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2018 by Simon & Schuster .

Victor Rivas was born and raised in Vigo, Spain, and he lives outside of Barcelona. He has been a freelance illustrator for thirty years, illustrating children's and teen books, comics, and concept art for multimedia games and animation. Andres Miedoso is still afraid of everything as a grown-up, even after all his adventures with Desmond Cole. He lives in New York City with his family, and he remains best friends with Desmond but returns to Kersville only when he's needed.