Book review

Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Book By: Mary Downing Hahn
Review By: Greta

This suspenseful ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn is about a 13 year old girl, Aly, and she spends the summer at a family vacation house in Maine. Her aunt offers to take her while she works on her art and Aly looks after her 4 year old cousin Emma. Aly’s mother protests that she hated the lake when she was a kid but ever since Aly found the picture of her mom, aunt and some other girl, but she was cut out of the picture. Ever since then, Aly want to investigate.

Aly pleads and her mother grants her promotion to go. Her aunt comes with Emma and they go to the mysterious house on the lake. When they get there, everything seems normal until one day when Aly takes Emma to the beach. They meet this girl Sissy. Sissy is very rude and mean to both Aly and Emma but since Sissy is the only friend Emma has, Emma becomes the same way. She is constantly having temper tantrums and being mean and rude, just like Sissy.

Emma worships Sissy. Until one day, Sissy takes it way too far. During this adventure, Aly uncovers the mystery of the girl who was cut out of the photograph.