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.
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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] |
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 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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
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), 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.
![]() |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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] |
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 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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
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? |