# The Dollhouse Murders

**Author:** Betty Ren Wright
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 1983
**Genre:** Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9780545157186`
**ISBN-10:** `0545157188`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-dollhouse-murders
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

An inherited dollhouse re-enacts a decades-old family tragedy at night, and Amy must unravel the truth to put the past to rest. (Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award winner.)

## Themes

- mystery
- family
- ghosts

## Where this book is assigned

### Iowa Children's Choice Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Iowa — [source: Iowa Children's Choice Award winners (Iowa Association of School Librarians), via Goodreads award record — 1988](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/5606-iowa-children-s-choice-award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Iowa — [source: Iowa Children's Choice Award winners (Iowa Association of School Librarians), via Goodreads award record — 1988](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/5606-iowa-children-s-choice-award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Iowa — [source: Iowa Children's Choice Award winners (Iowa Association of School Librarians), via Goodreads award record — 1988](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/5606-iowa-children-s-choice-award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Iowa — [source: Iowa Children's Choice Award winners (Iowa Association of School Librarians), via Goodreads award record — 1988](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/5606-iowa-children-s-choice-award)

### Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)

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