Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn

Both Ali and Dulcie are concerned when Emma begins to act more and more like her new 'friend' by throwing tantrums, sneaking off without supervision, and being unusually stubborn and disobedient. Claire claims not to remember who the third girl was.Īt the lake, Emma befriends an insolent young girl named Sissy. Prior to leaving for the summer, Ali discovers a photo of her aunt and mother as young girls at the lakehouse a third girl, labeled only T, has been torn from the photo. Dulcie and Claire have been estranged since they were teens after a family rift both women refuse to disclose. Thirteen-year-old Ali O'Dywer is thrilled at the prospect of spending the summer at a lakehouse in Maine as babysitter for her aunt Dulcie's adorable daughter Emma, rather than staying home with her own moody, sickly mother Claire. It was first published on through Clarion Books and follows a young girl who tries to investigate a torn photograph but gets wrapped up in a larger mystery. At first Ali thinks Sissy is just trying to scare her with a ghost story, but soon she discovers the real reason why Sissy is so angry: she is the ghost of Teresa and blames Claire and Dulcie for her death.Deep and Dark and Dangerous is a 2007 children's mystery horror novel written by Mary Downing Hahn. Sissy keeps talking about Teresa, a girl who drowned under mysterious circumstances when Claire and Dulcie were kids. Emma idolizes and imitates Sissy, becoming bratty and hostile and accepting Sissy's dangerous dares. The vacation by the lake turns unpleasant when Ali and Emma meet a mean, spiteful kid named Sissy. Claire, who is phobic about water, is dead set against her going but is forced to agree. Thirteen-year-old Ali is eager to spend her vacation with Aunt Dulcie, helping to care for her little niece, Emma, in the lake house where Dulcie and Claire, Ali's mother, spent summers.

A family secret is at the root of Mary Downing Hahn's story of supernatural events in Maine. Mary Downing Hahn is at her chilling best in this supernatural tale, where the long-buried secret of a young girl's death in a canoe accident relentlessly makes its way to the surface of an idyllic vacation. Name written inside on the back of the front cover.

Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn