Another great summer read is Deep, Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn. A 13-year-old girl named Ali finds an old photograph in the attic of her house,she recognizes two of the three children as her Aunt Dulcie & her Mom,Claire. But she finds that a third girl has been torn out of the photo. Ali first asks her Mother,but she denies that there ever was a third child & insists that it was just herself & Dulcie. Ali figures she'll have time to figure out who the girl is while she's with her Aunt & younger cousin,Emma, at a small cottage in Maine,but,not long after they arrive,the girls meet Sissy. Sissy is a mean & spiteful 10-year-old girl who is a bad influence on Emma,but Ali believes that Sissy knows about an incident in which a girl named Teresa Abbot Drowned under mysterious circumstances in a lake by the cottage 30 years before on the last summer that Dulcie & Claire were there when they were children,and,strangest of all,Sissy keeps talking about that very incident. At first, Ali suspects that Sissy is trying to scare both her & Emma with a ghost story. However, she soon discovers the reason as to why Sissy is so angry.
Here are some of my favorites so far! I read Klipfish Code by Mary Casanova. Twelve year old Marit experiences the Nazi occupation of Norway in 1942. Because her parents bravely stay behind to help the Resistance, Marit and her younger brother Lars must go stay with their grandfather and aunt. Although Grandfather warns Marit to stay neutral, Marit becomes involved with a plan to help the Resistance. Can Marit complete her mission and deliver a secret code? Marit learns about responsibility, secrecy, and loyalty as she takes risks to uphold her beliefs.
I have been busy reading all summer! I have read so many awesome books so far this summer, and I hope that I have time to read many, many more!
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AuthorI am Ms. Martini and I am the media specialist at Westwood School. I love reading, and I hope that you do too! Archives
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