Moving into a new house can be a scary experience! Howards family has bought a new house -- a new old house that is. It has 29 rooms full of spiders and creaky noises. It has a dark spooky basement. And it has a ghost. Howard can live with the rest but he wont share a house with a ghost. Nuh-uh. No way. Hell do anything -- even enlist the help of Punch McLaredy the class bully and his pet snake Chokey -- to get that ghost out! With a light-hearted tone this story deals with issues of anxiety bullying fear and change which are important curriculum and home life topics for this age group.