Synopsis

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.

Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.58w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780618665457
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Golden Sower Award - Winner
Award: Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award - Nominee
Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Winner
Award: Colorado Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Sasquatch Award - Winner
Award: Land of Enchantment Book Award - Winner
Award: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award - Honor Book
Award: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award - Winner
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Nominee
Award: Rhode Island Children's Book Awards - Winner
Award: Mark Twain Readers Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2007 pg. 47
School Library Journal 05/01/2007 pg. 134
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2007 pg. 448
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2007 pg. 28
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2007 pg. 343