Who Killed My Daughter?
by Lois Duncan · Grades 9–12 · Children's
Who Killed My Daughter? by Lois Duncan is on US reading lists at grades 9–12. It appears on 1 list: the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award. Every citation below links to the primary source.
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Assigned across 1 curriculum list
Grade placement varies by school — the median assigned book spans 4 grade levels (83% span three or more, across 13,258 source-cited assignments).
This page shows where Who Killed My Daughter? is assigned in US schools — curricula, states, grades, and the primary-source citations behind each placement. Not a summary or study guide.
Reading level at a glance
- Grade range
- Grades 9–12
- Pages
- 415
- Reading time
- about 7h 35m (est.)
- First published
- 2012
- Genre
- Children's
- ISBN-13
- 9781453263587
Sources: grade range from the cited lists below, last checked 2026-06-23; pages and year from our catalog record (sources); reading time is an estimate at 250 words a minute.
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Why it is assigned
This children's title is typically read at grades 9–12. Written in the 2010s; cited on the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award.
Where this book is recommended
Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award
- recommended·9th gradesource: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1995 Winner
- recommended·10th gradesource: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1995 Winner
- recommended·11th gradesource: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1995 Winner
- recommended·12th gradesource: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1995 Winner
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Common questions
- What grade level is Who Killed My Daughter??
- Who Killed My Daughter? is listed for grades 9–12. It appears on 1 book-award list. Exact placement varies by school and district.
- How long does it take to read Who Killed My Daughter??
- It takes about 7h 35m to read Who Killed My Daughter? (415 pages) at an average adult reading pace of about 250 words per minute — roughly 455 minutes. Faster or slower readers will vary; the estimate is a planning guide for assigning the book.
- What curricula assign Who Killed My Daughter??
- Who Killed My Daughter? appears on reading lists for Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award. Each assignment on this site links to its primary-source citation.
- Is Who Killed My Daughter? banned in schools?
- Who Killed My Daughter? does not appear in PEN America's Index of School Book Bans 2022-2024. No documented multi-district removals on record, but individual districts may challenge titles locally. See the banned books list by state.
Why this book is on this list
How we classifyHide
Each dimension below is sourced from a public reference. The full framework is documented on the classification standard page.
- Lexile measure
- Not classified — this book has no published Lexile measure.
- Grade band
- Grades 9–12 — drawn from the book-award lists citing this book.
- Curriculum alignment
- Cited in 1 curriculum on this site (see “Where recommended” above for primary-source links).
- State-level evidence
- Not yet documented in a state-level framework on this site.
- Removal / banning records
- No tracked removal or challenge records in cited sources.
- Seasonal / contextual tags
- Tagged for: read-aloud.