# Mary Downing Hahn — books assigned in US schools

**7** books by Mary Downing Hahn appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Grade span:** 3–8
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/mary-downing-hahn
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- family (2)
- ghosts (2)
- jealousy
- mystery

## Genres

- Horror (2)

## Every Mary Downing Hahn title on file

- [Stepping on the Cracks](https://readinglist.school/book/stepping-on-the-cracks) _(Grades 4–7 · 1992)_
- [Deep and Dark and Dangerous](https://readinglist.school/book/deep-and-dark-and-dangerous) _(Grades 4–6 · 2008)_
- [All the Lovely Bad Ones](https://readinglist.school/book/all-the-lovely-bad-ones) _(Grades 5–8 · 2009)_
- [Took](https://readinglist.school/book/took) _(Grades 6–8 · 2015)_
- [One for Sorrow](https://readinglist.school/book/one-for-sorrow) _(Grades 4–6 · 2017)_
- [Wait Till Helen Comes](https://readinglist.school/book/wait-till-helen-comes) _(Grades 4–7 · 2022)_
- [The Old Willis Place](https://readinglist.school/book/the-old-willis-place) _(Grades 3–6 · 2024)_

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