# Joan Lowery Nixon — books assigned in US schools

**8** books by Joan Lowery Nixon appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Grade span:** 3–9
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/joan-lowery-nixon
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- mystery and detective stories (7)
- detective and mystery stories (4)
- murder (2)
- authors
- brothers and sisters
- extrasensory perception
- family, fiction
- family, juvenile literature
- foster home care
- ghosts

## Genres

- Mystery (6)
- Fantasy
- Realistic Fiction

## Every Joan Lowery Nixon title on file

- [A Deadly Game of Magic](https://readinglist.school/book/a-deadly-game-of-magic) _(Grades 6–8 · 1983)_
- [The Other Side of Dark](https://readinglist.school/book/the-other-side-of-dark) _(Grades 6–8 · 1986)_
- [A Family Apart](https://readinglist.school/book/a-family-apart) _(Grades 6–8 · 1987)_
- [The Dark and Deadly Pool](https://readinglist.school/book/the-dark-and-deadly-pool) _(Grades 6–8 · 1987)_
- [Whispers from the Dead](https://readinglist.school/book/whispers-from-the-dead) _(Grades 6–9 · 1989)_
- [The Name of the Game Was Murder](https://readinglist.school/book/the-name-of-the-game-was-murder) _(Grades 3–8 · 1993)_
- [Spirit Seeker](https://readinglist.school/book/spirit-seeker) _(Grades 6–8 · 1995)_
- [The Haunting](https://readinglist.school/book/the-haunting) _(Grades 6–9 · 1998)_

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