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Deep and Dark and Dangerous: A Ghost Story | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher: Clarion Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 95113
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0618665455
EAN: 9780618665457
ASIN: 0618665455
Publication Date: May 21, 2007
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Product 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.
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 Great! Then... October 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, I bought this book and was so thrilled. I love Mary Downing Hahn's
books. I read it and thought it was great. About 6 months later I had nothing to read and thought about reading Deep and Dark and Dangerous again. It was so boring for a second time. Normally I can read books over and over but not this one. I would really recomend Wait Till Helen Comes or All The Lovely Bad Ones. If you want to read it check it out of
a library and don't make my mistake!
 If You've Read Wait Till Helen Comes, You've Read This July 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have loved Mary Downing Hahn's ghost stories since I was a child, which is why I was disappointed with Deep and Dark and Dangerous: it is almost exactly the same as Wait Till Helen Comes, the book she wrote 22 years ago. The books are SO similar that I was confused and frustrated while reading Deep and Dark and Dangerous - nothing was a surprise. I don't understand why Hahn would basically re-write an earlier book.
****REVIEW CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS****
In Wait Till Helen Comes (WTHC), pre-teen Molly moves to the countryside with her dad and stepmom and must take care of her 5-yr-old stepsister Heather for the summer.
In Deep and Dark and Dangerous (DDD), 13-yr-old Ali spends the summer at her aunt's lakeside cabin, taking care of her 4-yr-old niece, Emma.
In WTHC, Molly's stepmom is a distracted artist who holes up in her studio. So is Ali's aunt in DDD.
In WTHC, Heather befriends a local girl (ghost) who's mean, and possessive of Heather, and behaves dangerously and tries to separate her from Molly. In DDD, Emma, too, meets a similar local girl (ghost) who is dangerous/mean and tries to seperate her from Ali. Even the dialogue is annoyingly similar.
In WTHC, the ghost girl breaks into the stepmom's studio and destroys her artwork, and the stepmom doesn't believe in ghosts and insists it must have been local teenage vandals. The EXACT SAME THING happens in DDD.
In WTHC, the ghost girl tries to drown Heather. In DDD, the ghost girl tries to drown Emma.
Etc., etc.! My recommendation is to read Wait Till Helen Comes instead. It's the original and the best.
 Can't put it down May 24, 2008
Me and my friends were reading it at school and we couldn't out it down. We had the chise to watch a movie or read and we choose to read. We finshed the book in 2 and a half hour. I would read it over and over.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too July 17, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a good mystery/ghost story, then look no further. DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS by Mary Downing Hahn offers mystery, suspense, and some great ghost action.
Recently, Ali stumbled across an old photo of her mother and aunt when they were young girls. There was something odd about the photo. It appeared that another girl had been part of the picture but her part was torn away, leaving only the letter `T' to give any hint to her identity. Ali's mother swears she has no idea who was in the picture, but she isn't very convincing - which leaves Ali full of questions.
Ali is surprised when her Aunt Dulcie and cousin Emma come to visit. Aunt Dulcie is her mother's older sister, but she's entirely different. Ali's mom suffers from chronic migraines and periodic depression while Aunt Dulcie is the strong, independent type. There have been numerous times in Ali's life when she has wished her mother was more like Aunt Dulcie. Ali shows Aunt Dulcie the old photo and is surprised that her reaction is much the same as her mother's. How could they both not remember a picture taken at their family's vacation spot in Maine?
Dulcie is an artist with a big show coming up in the fall in Washington, D.C. She has decided to renovate the old family lake house and work on her paintings there. However, the lake and her almost five-year-old daughter make a dangerous combination, so Dulcie is hoping to take along her thirteen-year-old niece, Ali, as a babysitter. Ali's mother tries to put her foot down and says absolutely not, but she is outvoted and Ali packs her things for a summer at the lake.
Arriving at the cabin during a typical Maine rainstorm doesn't dampen Ali's spirits. She's looking forward to playing and swimming with Emma in the lake and sort of being her own boss. Ali's mother has always been a bit overprotective, and her bizarre reaction to Ali spending the summer at the lake house just convinces Ali that her mother has a problem. How can a beautiful lake, a cozy cabin, and the great outdoors be a bad place to spend the summer? Ali also secretly hopes to uncover the mystery of the photo and the missing girl whose name might have begun with `T'.
It doesn't take long for some strange things to begin happening. The most unnerving is the presence of a slim, young girl in a faded blue bathing suit who introduces herself to Ali and Emma. At first she appears to be a possible companion for the girls, but then she starts acting irritable and mean. She refuses to reveal her last name or where she lives, and she seems to be developing an unnatural hold on little Emma. Emma wants to do everything this strange girl named Sissy does, but at the same time Sissy treats Emma with cruelty.
When Ali attempts to seek out more information about Sissy and the mysterious girl from her mother's and aunt's past, she is met with one obstacle after another. Could this rude little girl have some connection to the mystery of why her mother refuses to return to the family cabin?
Mary Downing Hahn offers readers stormy weather, a deep, dark lake, and many unanswered questions to keep mystery and ghost story fans turning pages right up to the end.
Reviewed by: Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky"
Hahn is noted for her fine ghost stories with their unpredictable twists of plot July 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just before summer Ali finds an old photo in the attic - one which contains a puzzling family member, who's been torn out of the picture. She'll have much opportunity to investigate during her summer in Maine in the house where her mother used to vacation - but an encounter with a moody girl next door and her mean spirit leads to an encounter with a spirit who drowned under mysterious circumstances when Ali's mother and aunt were kids. Hahn is noted for her fine ghost stories with their unpredictable twists of plot - this joins others as an outstanding read.
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