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Deep and Dark and Dangerous

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Just before summer begins, 13-year-old Ali finds an odd photograph in the attic. She knows the two children in it are her mother, Claire, and her aunt Dulcie. But who's the third person, the one who's been torn out of the picture?

Ali figures she'll find out while she's vacationing in Maine with Dulcie and her four-year-old daughter, Emma, in the house where Ali's mother's family used to spend summers. All hopes for relaxation are quashed shortly after their arrival, though, when the girls meet Sissy, a kid who's mean and spiteful and a bad influence on Emma.

Strangest of all, Sissy keeps talking about a girl named Teresa who drowned under mysterious circumstances back when Claire and Dulcie were kids, and whose body was never found. At first Ali thinks Sissy's just trying to scare her with a ghost story, but soon she discovers the real reason why Sissy is so angry. . . . Mary Downing Hahn is at her chilling best in this new supernatural tale that's certain to send shivers down her readers' spines.

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    • School Library Journal

      September 1, 2013
      Gr 5-8-One rainy afternoon, 13-year-old Ali finds a photograph of her mother and aunt taken when they were children. It's torn, revealing only the shoulder of a mysterious third person; the name on the back reveals only the letter "T." Ali's mother refuses to talk about the photo or her summers at the lake in Maine. Ali goes to spend the summer at her aunt's Dulcie's lakeside home to babysit her four-year-old cousin, Emma. She enjoys her time there until a young girl named Sissy appears at the beach. Sissy immediately befriends Emma, but is quite rude to Ali. Sissy claims to know something about what happened to a girl named Teresa at the lake 30 years ago. While Ali doesn't trust her, she's intrigued and begins investigating. This is a slow building, but increasingly chilling ghost story (Clarion, 2007) as Sissy's erratic behavior coupled with Emma's need to please her leads to a couple of scary situations. Rachel Dulude's narration, which is told from Ali's point of view, captures the eerie atmosphere of the mystery, but would have benefited from a more emotional reading at times. Young listeners should be sufficiently spooked by the plot twists.-"Elizabeth Elsbree, Aurora Public Library, IL"

      Copyright 2013 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • ATOS Level:4
  • Lexile® Measure:650
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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