Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile

The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best 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 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

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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