![]() ![]() 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. Mary Downing Hahn, a former childrens librarian, is the award-winning author of many popular ghost stories, including Deep and Dark and Dangerous and The. 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. 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.Ī family secret is at the root of Mary Downing Hahn's story of supernatural events in Maine. ![]()
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