# Is Anybody There?

**Author:** Eve Bunting
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 1988
**Page count:** 173
**Genre:** Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9780606029056`
**ISBN-10:** `0606029052`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/is-anybody-there
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After discovering the disappearance of several household items, Marcus, a thirteen-year-old latchkey child, suspects that a stranger may be prowling around inside his house while he's at school and his mother is at work.

## Themes

- mothers and sons
- latchkey children
- latchkey children in fiction
- mothers and sons in fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1992 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1992 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1992 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

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