# Nightmare Mountain

**Author:** Peg Kehret
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 1989
**Page count:** 170
**Genre:** Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9780141306452`
**ISBN-10:** `0525650083`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/nightmare-mountain
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- mystery and detective stories
- llamas
- ranch life
- adventure and adventurers, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Iowa Children's Choice Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Iowa — [source: Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) — Iowa's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/5606-iowa-children-s-choice-award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Iowa — [source: Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) — Iowa's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/5606-iowa-children-s-choice-award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Iowa — [source: Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) — Iowa's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/5606-iowa-children-s-choice-award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Iowa — [source: Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) — Iowa's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/5606-iowa-children-s-choice-award)

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1993 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1993 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1993 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1992 winner (Intermediate)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1992 winner (Intermediate)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1992 winner (Intermediate)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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