num_pages: 187
description: 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.
language: English
title: Deep and Dark and Dangerous
titlecomplete: Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Paranormal, Young Adult, Ghost Stories, Childrens, Ghosts, Horror, Fantasy, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 20698
places: Maine
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Grand Canyon Reader Award
category: Intermediate Book, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Iowa Children's Choice Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Washington State Sasquatch Award
publisher: Clarion Books