List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile winners

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

2020s[]

2020 Susan Vaught, Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse
2021 Elizabeth C. Bunce, Premeditated Myrtle

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

External links[]

The official website of Edgar Awards

[1] 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.

[2] the Thrilling Detective

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