Mary Downing Hahn creates an amazing story that develops in Sycamore lake, were Ali's mom Clarie, and her aun Dulcie always spend their vacations when they were younger, in my last post I had only got to the middle of the story but know that i finally ended the book, it was much better that what i expected. When Ali starts having the strange feeling about sissy, she starts digging more into this little skinny girl that no one knows but when she tries to ask to her aunt she gives her an strange answer, that really doesn't says anything at all. Sissy hints at a tragedy that occurred in the lake thirty years earlier, the reason that Ali's mother and aunt have never been back to the cottage. A long-ago crime is brought to light. And that's when things start to get deep and dark and dangerous. Sissy continues making Alis babysitting job much harder, she gets Emma against Ali and the worst part she puts her in danger. Strangest of all, she 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. Is Sissy really sissy? Ali soon finds out all the answers to her questions, collecting loose ends that confirms all of them when her aunt tells the real story, it travels all along until her mom and she were as little as Emma, Dulcie tells Ali all the details of the death of Teresa and the actions seem the same as the ones of sissy, at the end the only possible explanation is to believe in ghosts.
The book pulled me in from my first glimpse of the cover, which shows a girl under water, her hair floating around her white face, and it did not disappoint, I will recommend this book to any gosht lover, Mary Downing did an excellent job making every scene creepy and with mysterious air, even when describing sunny days at the lake, Hahn never lets the storm clouds get far away. Certain creepy images recur through the story, most notably the bones below the surface of the lake, appearing in paintings by both Emma and Dulcie. But readers, especially middle schoolers, will enjoy every step of the way. Although most of the characters are female, I think that the story is creepy enough to engage boys as well as girls.
The book pulled me in from my first glimpse of the cover, which shows a girl under water, her hair floating around her white face, and it did not disappoint, I will recommend this book to any gosht lover, Mary Downing did an excellent job making every scene creepy and with mysterious air, even when describing sunny days at the lake, Hahn never lets the storm clouds get far away. Certain creepy images recur through the story, most notably the bones below the surface of the lake, appearing in paintings by both Emma and Dulcie. But readers, especially middle schoolers, will enjoy every step of the way. Although most of the characters are female, I think that the story is creepy enough to engage boys as well as girls.