Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile

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]

Winners

1960s

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
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

1970s

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
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

1980s

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
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

1990s

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
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

2000s

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
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]

2010s

2020s Best Juvenile winners ^[7]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
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 Ponti	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

2020s

2020s Best Juvenile winners ^[7]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
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?

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External links

• The official website of Edgar Awards