The Edgar Allan Poe Award forBest Juvenile Mystery Fiction is a category presented 1961 onwards at the Edgar Awards (commonly known as the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe. The awards are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America [1] and they remain the most prestigious awards in the mystery genre. [2]
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1961 | Phyllis A. Whitney | The Mystery of the Haunted Pool | Winner | |
1962 | Edward Fenton | The Phantom of Walkaway Hill | Winner | |
1963 | Scott Corbett | Cutlass Island | Winner | |
1964 | Phyllis A. Whitney | Mystery of the Hidden Hand | Winner | |
1965 | Marcella Thum | Mystery at Crane's Landing | Winner | |
1966 | Leon Ware | The Mystery of 22 East | Winner | |
1967 | Kin Platt | Sinbad and Me | Winner | |
1968 | Gretchen Sprague | Signpost to Terror | Winner | |
1969 | Virginia Hamilton | The House of Dies Drear | Winner |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1970 | Winifred Finlay | Danger at Black Dyke | Winner | |
1971 | John Rowe Townsend | The Intruder | Winner | |
1972 | Joan Aiken | Night Fall | Winner | |
1973 | Robb White | Deathwatch | Winner | |
1974 | Jay Bennett | The Long Black Coat | Winner | |
1975 | Jay Bennett | The Dangling Witness | Winner | |
1976 | Robert C. O'Brien | Z for Zachariah | Winner | |
1977 | Richard Peck | Are You in the House Alone? | Winner | |
1978 | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | A Really Weird Summer | Winner | |
1979 | Dana Brookins | Alone in Wolf Hollow | Winner |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1980 | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore | Winner | |
1981 | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Seance | Winner | |
1982 | Norma Fox Mazer | Taking Terri Mueller | Winner | |
1983 | Robbie Branscum | The Murder of Hound Dog Bates | Winner | |
1984 | Cynthia Voigt | The Callender Papers | Winner | |
1985 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Night Cry | Winner | |
1986 | Patricia Windsor | The Sandman's Eyes | Winner | |
1987 | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Other Side of Dark | Winner | |
1988 | Susan Shreve | Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks | Winner | |
1989 | Willo Davis Roberts | Megan's Island | Winner |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1991 | Pam Conrad | Stonewords | Winner | |
1992 | Betsy Byars | Wanted...Mud Blossom | Winner | |
1993 | Eve Bunting | Coffin on a Case! | Winner | |
1994 | Barbara Brooks Wallace | The Twin in the Tavern | Winner | |
1995 | Willo Davis Roberts | The Absolutely True Story... How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes | Winner | |
1996 | Nancy Springer | Looking for Jamie Bridger | Winner | |
1997 | Dorothy Reynolds Miller | The Clearing | Winner | |
1998 | Barbara Brooks Wallace | Sparrows in the Scullery | Winner | |
1999 | Wendelin Van Draanen | Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief | Winner |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | Elizabeth McDavid Jones | The Night Flyers | Winner | |
2001 | Frances O'Roark Dowell | Dovey Coe | Winner | |
2002 | Lillian Eige | Dangling | Winner | |
2003 | Helen Ericson | Harriet Spies Again | Winner | |
2004 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry | Winner | |
2005 | Blue Balliett | Chasing Vermeer | Winner | |
2006 | D. James Smith | The Boys of San Joaquin | Winner | [3] |
2007 | Andrew Clements | Room One: a Mystery or Two | Winner | [4] |
2008 | Katherine Marsh | The Night Tourist | Winner | [5] |
2009 | Tony Abbott | The Postcard | Winner | [6] |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | Mary Downing Hahn | Closed for the Season | Winner | [8] |
2011 | Dori Hillestad Butler | The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy | Winner | |
2012 | Matthew J. Kirby | Icefall | Winner | [9] |
Tom Angleberger | Horton Halfpott | Shortlist | [9] | |
Mac Barnett | It Happened on a Train | [9] | ||
Sheela Chari | Vanished | [9] | ||
Shawn Thomas Odyssey | The Wizard of Dark Street | [9] | ||
2013 | Jack D. Ferraiolo | The Quick Fix | Winner | |
2014 | Amy Timberlake | One Came Home | Winner | [10] |
Josh Berk | Strike Three, You’re Dead | Shortlist | [10] | |
Erin Dionne | Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking | [10] | ||
Caroline Lawrence | P. K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man | [10] | ||
Jonathan Stroud | The Screaming Staircase | [10] | ||
2015 | Kate Milford | Greenglass House | Winner | [11] [12] |
Heather Vogel Frederick | Absolutely Truly | Shortlist | [12] | |
Stuart Gibbs | Space Case | [12] | ||
“Science Bob” Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith | Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove | [12] | ||
N. H. Senzai | Saving Kabul Corner | [12] | ||
Marcia Wells | Eddie Red, Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile | [12] | ||
2016 | Susan Vaught | Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy | Winner | [13] |
Avi | Catch You Later, Traitor | Shortlist | ||
Matthew Baker | If You Find This | |||
Lauren Oliver and H. C. Chester | Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head | |||
Kevin Sands | The Blackthorn Key | |||
2017 | Wesley King | OCDaniel | Winner | [14] |
Ally Condie | Summerlost | Shortlist | ||
Sarah Lariviere | The Bad Kid | |||
Claire Legrand | Some Kind of Happiness | |||
James Pont | Framed! | |||
Susan Vaught | Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry | |||
2018 | James Ponti | Vanished! | Winner | [15] |
Kirby Larson | Audacity Jones Steals the Show | Shortlist | ||
Kevin Sands | The Assassin’s Curse | |||
Robin Stevens | First Class Murder | |||
Ru Xu | NewsPrints | |||
2019 | Pete Hautman | Otherwood | Winner | [16] |
Tony Abbott | Denis Ever After | Shortlist | ||
Martha Freeman | Zap! | |||
A.B. Greenfield | Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective | |||
Ben Guterson | Winterhouse | |||
Karen Kane | Charlie & Frog | |||
T.R. Simon | Zora & Me: The Cursed Ground |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2020 | Susan Vaught | Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse | Winner | [17] |
Cary Fagan | The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster | Shortlist | [18] | |
Corey Ann Haydu | Eventown | |||
Greg Howard | The Whispers | |||
Laura Tucker | All the Greys on Greene Street | |||
2021 | Elizabeth C. Bunce | Premeditated Myrtle | Winner | [19] [20] [21] |
Tanya Lloyd Kyi | Me and Banksy | Shortlist | [21] | |
Janae Marks | From the Desk of Zoe Washington | |||
Nnedi Okorafor | Ikenga | |||
Melissa Savage | Nessie Quest | |||
Taryn Souders | Coop Knows the Scoop | |||
2022 | Christina Diaz Gonzalez | Concealed | Winner | [22] [23] |
Elizabeth C. Bunce | Cold-Blooded Myrtle | Shortlist | [24] | |
Marthe Jocelyn | Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Dead Man in the Garden | |||
M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman | Kidnap on the California Comet: Adventures on Trains #2 | |||
Jennifer A. Nielsen | Rescue | |||
2023 | Marthe Jocelyn | Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse | Winner | [25] |
Michael D. Beil | The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef | Shortlist | [26] | |
Julie Buxbaum | The Area 51 Files | |||
M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman | Adventures on Trains: Murder on the Safari Star | |||
Kekla Magoon | Chester Keene Cracks the Code | |||
2024 | Adrianna Cuevas | The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto | Winner | [27] [28] |
Elizabeth C. Bunce | Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity | Shortlist | [28] | |
Lamar Giles | Epic Ellisons: Cosmos Camp | |||
Larry Schwarz and Iva Marie Palmer | The Jules Verne Prophecy | |||
Claire Swinarski | What Happened to Rachel Riley? |
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America which is based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.
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Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Play:
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