Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile
Appearance
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America.[1] They remain the most prestigious awards in the entire mystery genre.[2] Since 1961 they have presented an award in the category of Best Juvenile Mystery Fiction.
Winners
1960s
- 1961 Phyllis A. Whitney, The Mystery of the Haunted Pool
- 1962 Edward Fenton, The Phantom of Walkaway Hill
- 1963 Scott Corbett, Cutlass Island
- 1964 Phyllis A. Whitney, Mystery of the Hidden Hand
- 1965 Marcella Thum, Mystery at Crane's Landing
- 1966 Leon Ware, The Mystery of 22 East
- 1967 Kin Platt, Sinbad and Me
- 1968 Gretchen Sprague, Signpost to Terror
- 1969 Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear
1970s
- 1970 Winifred Finlay, Danger at Black Dyke
- 1971 John Rowe Townsend, The Intruder
- 1972 Joan Aiken, Night Fall
- 1973 Robb White, Deathwatch
- 1974 Jay Bennett, The Long Black Coat
- 1975 Jay Bennett, The Dangling Witness
- 1976 Robert C. O'Brien, Z for Zachariah
- 1977 Richard Peck, Are You in the House Alone?
- 1978 Eloise Jarvis McGraw, A Really Weird Summer
- 1979 Dana Brookins, Alone in Wolf Hollow
1980s
- 1980 Joan Lowery Nixon, The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
- 1981 Joan Lowery Nixon, The Seance
- 1982 Norma Fox Mazer, Taking Terri Mueller
- 1983 Robbie Branscum, The Murder of Hound Dog Bates
- 1984 Cynthia Voigt, The Callender Papers
- 1985 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Night Cry
- 1986 Patricia Windsor, The Sandman's Eyes
- 1987 Joan Lowery Nixon, The Other Side of Dark
- 1988 Susan Shreve, Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks
- 1989 Willo Davis Roberts, Megan's Island
1990s
- 1991 Pam Conrad, Stonewords
- 1992 Betsy Byars, Wanted...Mud Blossom
- 1993 Eve Bunting, Coffin on a Case!
- 1994 Barbara Brooks Wallace, The Twin in the Tavern
- 1995 Willo Davis Roberts, The Absolutely True Story... How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes
- 1996 Nancy Springer, Looking for Jamie Bridger
- 1997 Dorothy Reynolds Miller, The Clearing
- 1998 Barbara Brooks Wallace, Sparrows in the Scullery
- 1999 Wendelin Van Draanen, Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
2000s
- 2000 Elizabeth McDavid Jones, The Night Flyers
- 2001 Frances O'Roark Dowell, Dovey Coe
- 2002 Lillian Eige, Dangling
- 2003 Helen Ericson, Harriet Spies Again
- 2004 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry
- 2005 Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer
- 2006 D. James Smith, The Boys of San Joaquin
- 2007 Andrew Clements, Room One: a Mystery or Two
- 2008 Katherine Marsh, The Night Tourist
- 2009 Tony Abbott, The Postcard
2010s
- 2010 Mary Downing Hahn, Closed for the Season
- 2011 Dori Hillestad Butler, The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy
- 2012 Matthew J. Kirby, Icefall
- 2013 Jack D. Ferraiolo, The Quick Fix
- 2014 Amy Timberlake, One Came Home
- 2015 Kate Milford, Greenglass House
- 2016 Susan Vaught, Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy
- 2017 Wesley King, OCDaniel
- 2018 James Ponti, Vanished!
- 2019 Pete Hautman, Otherwood
See also
- Edgar Award
- Mystery Writers of America
- Category:Edgar Award winners
- Category:Edgar Award winning works
References
- ^ Neimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture", collected in The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-79727-6. p. 206.
- ^ the Thrilling Detective