Decidedly creepy ghost story for the upper primary age ( )

Dangerous Spaces is about two eleven year olds. Anthea, recently orphaned, has come to stay with her aunt and uncle, in the house her grandfather built, and she and her cousin Flora are still adjusting to living together.

So when Anthea dreams her way into an empty landscape, at first she is relieved to find a space that she doesn't have to share...

This is the sort of adventure in which the resolution is finding a way out of a fantasy space, with the implied intention of never returning, which isn't my favourite. However, I read this for Margaret Mahy's prose, which is really lovely, and for the believable family dynamics.

Now, that silver honey-pot, wrapped carefully in tissue paper, was packed away in a wooden chest, waiting for the day when Anthea had a home of her own once more. [...] If Anthea could have wrapped herself in tissue paper and packed herself away with the honey-pot, she would have done so happily. Then, when things became better, when there was a true space for her, she would rise up out of the tissue paper (while people exclaimed at her beauty and value) and move gracefully into that space, where she would sit, looking serenely at the world. ( )