How I Became a Ghost:

How I Became a Ghost by: Tim Tingle
Fiction: history, paranormal, children's, 141 pages
Physical Book Count: 20
Book Count: 51

This book tells the story of the Choctaw Trail of Tears though the eyes of Issac, a ten year old Choctaw boy.  During the time when the people first learned of the treaty that resulted in their forced migration, Issac first sees ghosts.  Well, first he sees how a number of his people will shortly die, and then he sees some of them after they die, and he knows that he too will soon be a ghost.  So the whole book is told as the memories of the ghost of a boy.  First, the town is burned down after he sees a couple of the town elders burning up.  Then they town moves out to the swamp and he sees people with sores on their bodies.  Shortly after soldiers arrive with blankets.  His family refuses them, and the people who take them end up with smallpox.  Then they end up on the Trail of Tears, they join up camp with a family with a 5 year old daughter that adopts Issac as her big brother.  From then, every day of walking gets him closer to being a ghost.  Also, his dog has lines of dialogue, but I don't think he is literally hearing the dog talk like he sees the ghosts, just that he knows what the dog would say.