# Peppermints in the Parlor

**Author:** Barbara Brooks Wallace
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 1980
**Page count:** 198
**Genre:** Horror
**ISBN-13:** `9780689874178`
**ISBN-10:** `0689874170`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/peppermints-in-the-parlor
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- old age in fiction
- old age
- orphans in fiction
- horror stories

## Where this book is assigned

### William Allen White Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1983 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1983 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1983 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1983 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1983 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)

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