![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() She pointed to the cabinet by the sink, and Emma began counting out the utensilsfour of each. ![]() 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. Mary Downing Hahn, quote from Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story) Why don’t you and Ali set the table The forks and knives and spoons are in that drawer. ![]()
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