BOOKS BY MARY DOWNING

Deep And Dark And Dangerous!

What a great book!This book takes you deeper then deep.  Done Done Donnnnnnnnnnnne.Just before summer begins, 12-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,  who's been torn out of the picture? Ali figures she'll find out while she's on vacation in Maine with Dulcie and her fouryear- old cousin, Emma, in the house where Ali's mother's family used to go almost every summer.   After their arrival, the girls meet Sissy, a girl who's mean to Emma. Sissy keeps talking about a girl named Teresa who drowned  back when Claire and Dulcie were kids,but her  body was never found.  Ali thinks Sissy's just trying to scare them with a ghost story, but she discovers the real reason why Sissy is so angry.

Travis and his sister, Corey learn that their grandmother's  Vermont inn has a history of ghost in the inn. They decide to do a little "haunting" of their own.They find that scaring the guests is lots of  fun, and before long, the inn is filled with ghost hunters looking for signals of ghosts. But Travis and Corey soon find out that they aren't the only ghosts at the Inn. Their haunting games have awakened the ghosts of the inn.Their spirits wonder the inn and  stalk the halls and wait for people to scare . To get the ghosts back where they came from, Travis and Corey must first discover the history of the inn and the horrors of it's visitors years earlier.