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Heroine archetypes
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Synopsis
Ali goes on vacation in maine with her aunt dulcie, and her baby cousin emma. soon emma and ali meet a sassy girl named sissy, who is a bad influence on emma. Sissy keeps talking about a girl named teresa, who drowned back when claire, Ali's mom, and dulcie were little kids, and whose body was never found. At first Ali thinks that sissy is just trying to scare her and emma, but soon figures out why Sissy is so angry.
Is Deep and Dark and Dangerous appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
A middle-grade ghost story involving the drowning death of a child decades earlier. The supernatural elements include a potentially dangerous ghost manipulating children, with themes of guilt, grief, and unresolved trauma, but handled age-appropriately without graphic content.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include death, child death, and grief (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
A creepy mystery about a girl who befriends a ghost with a dark secret connected to her family's past.