“… her bones are still out there someplace deep down in the dark, dark water” (pg. It is through Sissy that Ali and Emma learn about a girl named Teresa: how Teresa was drowned in Sycamore Lake and her body was never recovered.
After hanging out with her, Emma begins lying, telling Aunt Dulcie that Ali tried to push her off the dock into the lake.
Sissy is a nasty little thing, made all the worse because she seems to be a bad influence on Emma. Then a malicious and mysterious girl of about nine or ten shows up. Emma shares a scary dream in which bones in the water come out and chase her. Once in Maine, Ali realizes that her mother’s fears may be well-founded. Despite a lot of reservations, Ali’s mother agrees. She needs Ali to babysit her five-year-old daughter, Emma. Aunt Dulcie, an artist preparing for a big show, has decided it is time to return and get some work done. Sycamore Lake is deep and dark and dangerous.
Her mother hasn’t been to the cottage since she was a girl, but according to her the place is always rainy, mosquito-ridden and unpleasant. Her books are always so deliciously creepy! Although this is not a newly published book, it is wonderfully chilling – just right for reading on a dark and dangerous night with your back up against a wall.Īli is getting to spend the summer at Gull Cottage on Sycamore Lake in Maine despite her mother’s negative attitude toward the whole idea. No Halloween reading list would be complete without a selection by Mary Downing Hahn. Publisher: Sandpiper, an imprint of Houghton Mufflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2007
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