# The Haunting

**Author:** Joan Lowery Nixon
**Grade range:** Grades 6–9
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 1998
**Page count:** 184
**Genre:** Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9780440420026`
**ISBN-10:** `0440420024`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-haunting
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- haunted houses
- ghosts
- mystery
- mystery and detective stories

## Where this book is recommended

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2001 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2001 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2001 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 9th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2001 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

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