First impressions are not always right What is the woman kids call Mad Mary hiding next door? Brit is spying on her to find out - when she isn"t visiting her sister in the hospital or shoveling snow off her underground house. Then Brit and her friend Oly see a huge black shape on the other side of the hedge. What is it? A bear?! Brit discovers more than she bargained for and learns Mary may not be so crazy after all. Here is a sparkling debut novel that will absorb every reader.