Down a Dark Hall
Kit's driving with her mom and Dan her step-dad. They are driving Kit to her new school Black wood. Kit isn't very happy about mainly because her good friend Tracey Rosenbloom isn't going with. At first Kit was excited, But when she figured out that Tracey wasn't accepted her smile turned upside down. When Kit and parents got to Black wood Kit had this weird feeling about it. The same word kept occurring over and over again, It was "evil." When Kit got to Black wood she met Lucretia the maid. Then she met Madame Durae. Kit had permission to stay there one day before school opened because her parents were going to Europe for their Honeymoon. Later after her parents left Kit went to see her room it wasn't what she was expecting...... It was beautiful! But there was something odd about the locks they locked from outside the not inside. After that Kit has dinner with the teachers. Jules the handsome young man that was Madame's Son And Professor Farley a kind looking old man. The next day more students started arriving. There was Sandy, Ruth and Lynda. Then Kit realized that there were only 4 students. Kit doesn't talk to any of them except Sandy her and Sandy were becoming good friends. Kit was laying in her bed when she heard Sandy scream. Kit was in the hallway it was very dark so she slowly inched out of her room and ran towards Sandy's room. When kit got there she noticed that her room was locked but it couldn't be. Kit gave another turn and it burst open and Kit felt icy wind in Sandy's room. She went to Sandy and her skin was "like ice" then sandy woke up not knowing that she screamed. Sandy told kit that she saw a woman in her room standing next to her. A couple days later Lynda draws a portrait of Kit, Kit loves it. They show Madame the portrait and she looks excited so she gives Lynda oil paints and more art supplies. Later in the day, Sandy calls Kit outside to talk. Sandy says she has weird feeling about this place. Then suddenly Kit sees her room's light on, when she remembers that she switched it off and locked the door. So could the light be on? Kit ran to her room and when she got there the portrait was gone..... Days pass and the girls haven't seem Lynda since the day she drew Kit. While they are eating dinner Madame tells Kit to give Lynda her dinner. When Kit got to Lynda's room she was shocked there were paintings all over and her room looked like a art studio. Days pass and the girls start getting more and more curious about black wood. They say Kit should ask Natalie the cook. After Kit talks to Natalie she figures out that the Brewers lived but the all died in the fire except Mr.Brewer he was on a business trip and where they the fire was that's where the girls slept. Soon after they died Mr.Brewer went insane. Madame sees Kit talking to Natalie and Kit the hot red anger in Madame's eyes. So Kit goes to her room. The next the day Lucretia brings dinner and it is terrible, Kit asks Madame where's Natalie. Madame says that Natalie was getting married. Kit starts hearing beautiful strange music and when she wakes up her fingers hurt. One night she woke up on the bench of piano and Jules was next to her recording. Kit gets suspicious and calls everyone down. After a while of talk they find out that Madame is a medium and the ghost were using them as receivers and Sandy figures out that the woman she saw her name was Ellis and Ruth was doing great math. The next few nothing really happens except the day of the storm and lights go out and Sandy starts laughing hysterically. So Prof. Farley sends Kit to get Madame but Kit goes to Madame's office to call the Rosenblooms so they can pick her up from here. But the line was out. But Jules come to the office. Jules finds out what happened to the girls at his mother's old school. Jules go back to the parlor where everyone else is. Sandy was quiet now. Jules says he needs to get the girls out of here without letting Kit know what happened. After the argument Jules has with his mother. He tells everyone what happened. 3 or 4 of the girls committed suicide the rest went crazy and are now in a mental institution. Angrily Madame drops the candle and sets a fire by accident. Everyone rushes out of the building. Then suddenly they remember that the forgot Lynda! Kit says she'll go get her but, everyone disagrees but Kit didn't care. Kit ran through the back door up the stairs, down the hall and to Lynda's door, but it was locked. She yelled through the door to jump through the window Sandy, Ruth and Jules would be there to catch her. After a while she didn't hear anything so she left, the smoke was getting thicker and thicker by the minute. The fire was so close that Kit was trapped. Then Kit heard a familiar voice her father was standing right before her..... he couldn't have he was dead. Kit didn't know what happened next she just found herself on the driveway..................
My Opinion
In my opinion Down a Dark Hall is a great book. Scary, mysterious novel doesn't everyone like that? You never know what might happen next and when you figure what happens next you get a little jolt! The novel is amazingly frightening.
Challenge/Question
Have you read this book before? If not I challenge you to read it! <3
