The Girl in the Lake by India Hill Brown

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After some bad experiences with Ellie's ghost, even though their grandmother assures them that Ellie isn't dangerous, the children try out a theory to see if they can bring Ellie, and themselves, to peace. At the same time, Celeste starts to take swimming lessons from her grandfather, who was a big proponent of young Blacks learning to swim at a time when this was not encouraged, and Celeste experiences some of the prejudice and discrimination against Black people in public pools in her own community. When the house seems to be haunted, with lights flashing in the attic, whispered voices, and Celeste seeming to be in two places at once, the children want to find out what is going on. Celeste realizes that she looks almost exactly like her great aunt Ellie, but her grandmother won't give her any details about her sister. She's mean to Celeste at first, but this is a reaction to the grandparents expecting her to drive the other children around. Her older cousin Capri is a good track athlete, but is afraid of driving. Her cousin Daisy, who is younger and dresses and acts like she is a child in the 1950s, is afraid of thunderstorms. Her brother Owen, who is afraid of creatures in the woods, will be coming along. This is important because she is going to spend the summer at Grandad Jim and Grandma Judy's summer house on a lake, and she will be expected to spend a lot of time in the water. Celeste has never been comfortable in the water and has just 'failed' her last attempt at swimming lessons.

The Girl in the Lake by India Hill Brown