SOLVED. Children/ YA Fantasy about a main character who befriends a ghost boy in a grave yard but it turns out that the boy was pretending to be his dead twin. [s]

[CL]

Hello, I can’t remember this book title that I’ve read in the early 2000’s, I vaguely remembered that the main character was a girl that moved into town and when she was out and about, she saw a pale boy in the middle of the graveyard sitting on a grave stone, when she approaches him, he says that he is dead and that the stone was his. They meet a few more times to play and the subject of her getting old while he stays the same was brought up a few times but eventually there was some big dramatic reveal that he was actually alive and that he was a twin who was pretending to be the dead brothers ghost. I know it wasn’t a Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book. I think the boy was part of a rich family or something but he ran away and was sleeping near his brothers grave most nights. I’ll try to remember more but that’s all I got for now. Any help is appreciated, Thanks!

[bookel]

Death of one twin -- children's/young adult fiction
https://www.librarything.com/list/620...

Ghost twin by Richard Brown?
https://www.librarything.com/work/115...

[CL]

No sadly, it’s none of these. Thanks though.

[bookel]

Now for actual searching Google Books with year range 1980-2005.
twin ghost pale boy sitting on gravestone
Ghost Boy by Jean Simon?
Not sure if that is it, no real mention of human twins.
Free to read here: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59463...

[CL]

I took your advice on the google books search (thank you, I forgot that google books exist) and I found the book I was looking for! It was The Garden Of Eve by KL Going. Thank you for helping me though, I do appreciate it!

[bookel]

The Garden of Eve link.
Fantastic, good job.