List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel 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] The award for Best Young Adult Mystery was established in 1989 and recognizes works written for ages twelve to eighteen, and grades eight through twelve.^[3] Prior to the establishment of this award, the Mystery Writers of America awarded a special Edgar to Katherine Paterson for The Master Puppeteer in 1977.

Winners[]

1980s[]

1989 Sonia Levitin, Incident at Loring Groves

1990s[]

1990 Alane Ferguson, Show Me the Evidence
1991 Chap Reaver, Mote
1992 Theodore Taylor, The Weirdo
1993 Chap Reaver, A Little Bit Dead
1994 Joan Lowery Nixon, The Name of the Game Was Murder
1995 Nancy Springer, Toughing It
1996 Rob MacGregor, Prophecy Rock
1997 Willo Davis Roberts, Twisted Summer
1998 Will Hobbs, Ghost Canoe
1999 Nancy Werlin, The Killer's Cousin

2000s[]

2000 Vivian Vande Velde, Never Trust a Dead Man
2001 Elaine M. Alphin, Counterfeit Son
2002 Tim Wynne-Jones, The Boy in the Burning House
2003 Daniel Parker, The Wessex Papers
2004 Graham McNamee, Acceleration
2005 Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler, In Darkness, Death
2006 John Feinstein, Last Shot
2007 Robin Merrow MacCready, Buried
2008 Tedd Arnold, Rat Life
2009 John Green, Paper Towns

2010s[]

2010 Peter Abrahams Reality Check
2011 Charlie Price, The Interrogation of Gabriel James
2012 Dandi Daley Mackall, The Silence of Murder
2013 Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity
2014 Annabel Pitcher, Ketchup Clouds
2015 , The Art of Secrets
2016 Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet
2017 Monica Hesse,
2018 Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
2019 Courtney Summers, Sadie

2020s[]

2020 Naomi Kritzer, Catfishing on CatNet

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.
^ Thrilling Detective
^ Mystery Writers^{[permanent dead link]}

External links[]

The official website of Edgar Awards (includes nominees)

[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] Thrilling Detective

[3] Mystery Writers^{[permanent dead link]}

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