# Strider

**Author:** Beverly Cleary
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 1989
**Page count:** 176
**Genre:** Science Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780688099015`
**ISBN-10:** `0688099017`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/strider
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.

## Themes

- diaries
- high schools
- schools
- divorce

## Where this book is assigned

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1994 winner (Middle Grade)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1994 winner (Middle Grade)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1994 winner (Middle Grade)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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