Deep and Dark and Dangerous

Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Author Mary Downing Hahn
Country United States
Language English
Published 2007, Clarion Books
Media type Print, ebook, audiobook
Pages 187 pages
ISBN 0618665455

Deep and Dark and Dangerous is a 2007 Mystery Horror novel written by Mary Downing Hahn. It was first published on May 21, 2007 through Clarion Books and follows a young girl who tries to investigate a torn photograph but gets wrapped up in a larger mystery.

Plot

The plot is on when thirteen-year-old Alison O'Dywer finds a photograph in her attic. The photograph is of her mother Claire, her Aunt Dulcie, and a third girl who has been torn out of the picture. When Ali takes a surprise vacation to the lake she meets a short-tempered, nasty little girl named Sissy. As Ali gets more ill-tempered with Sissy she tries to figure out Sissy's past but later she finds a very terrifying surprise; Sissy had no home and had died when her mother and aunt were little girls and that they also had interacted with them. At the end of the story, Ali and Emma (Emma is her cousin she is baby sitting) find out the truth; Teresa had been the same little girl in the photograph and the last summer that Ali's mom and aunt had been there Teresa had died in a terrible accident; she had drowned in the lake. Sissy then starts telling Ali that she wants to be buried and wants people to bring her flowers and for them to cry so she will be able to pass on to her future life.

Ali takes her five-year-old cousin who she is babysitting, Emma, to the lake to swim. While there, they meet a mean and very rude girl named Sissy. Emma becomes influenced by Sissy and wants to be like her. She even talks rudely to Ali and almost drowns Emma in the lake—Ali gets into an argument with Sissy and Sissy leaves. Emma runs crying to her mother, saying Ali was mean to her and called her names. Ali gets angry and tells Dulcie she is lying and Emma says Ali is so mean, nobody would want her. Dulcie and Emma argue until Dulcie tells Emma she can not play with Sissy anymore, resulting with Emma throwing a temper-tantrum and Dulcie bringing her to her room to take a nap.

Characters

Reception

Critical reception was mostly positive.[1][2] Kirkus Reviews gave the book a positive review and stated that the book had a "satisfyingly chilly but calm resolution".[3] Kliatt also gave Deep and Dark and Dangerous a positive rating, commenting that the book's foreshadowing "is a bit heavy-handed" but overall writing that it "provides just the right amount of shiver for this age group without scarring them for life."[4] The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books remarked that while the book did not live up to some of Hahn's previous works such as Wait Till Helen Comes, it had "a compact and approachable shiveriness that would make it an easygoing vacation read."[5]

Awards

References

  1. "Deep and Dark and Dangerous (review)". Booklist. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  2. "Deep and Dark and Dangerous (REVIEW)". School Library Journal. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  3. "Deep and Dark and Dangerous (review)". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  4. Hoy, Sherry (November 1, 2008). "Hahn, Mary Downing. Deep and dark and dangerous.(Young adult review)". Kliatt (subscription required). Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  5. Stevenson, Deborah (2007). "Deep and Dark and Dangerous: A Ghost Story (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 61 (1): 28. doi:10.1353/bcc.2007.0614. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  6. "Edgar nominees.(Edgar Allan Poe Awards)(Brief article)". Bookmarks (subscription required). March 1, 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  7. "'Deep and Dark' wins Lovelace book award Jones signing 'Baseball Guy' at fundraiser Eric Dregni to sign 'Vikings in the Attic'". Twin Cities. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
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