Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Juvenile Categories

Edgar Awards have been presented for Best Mystery in a variety of categories since 1945. The "Best Juvenile Novel" category was added in 1962. A "Best Young Adult Novel" category was established in 1989.

1996

Juvenile - Nancy Springer, Looking For Jamie Bridger (Dial)

Young Adult - Rob Macgregor, Prophecy Rock (Simon & Schuster)

1995

Juvenile - Willo Davis Roberts, The Absolutely True Story... How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes

Young Adult - Nancy Springer, Toughing It

1994

Juvenile - Barbara Brooks Wallace, The Twin in the Tavern

Young Adult - Joan Lowery Nixon, The Name of the Game Was Murder

1993

Juvenile - Eve Bunting, Coffin on a Case

Young Adult - Chap Reaver, A Little Bit Dead

1992

Juvenile - Betsy Byars, Wanted... Mud Blossom

Young Adult - Theodore Taylor, The Weirdo

1991

Juvenile - Pam Conrad, Stonewords

Young Adult - Chap Reaver, Mote

1990

Juvenile - No Award

Young Adult - Alane Ferguson, Show Me the Evidence

1989

Juvenile - Willo Davis Roberts, Megan's Island

Young Adult - Sonia Levitin, Incident at Loring Groves

1988 - Susan Shreve, Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks

1987 - Joan Lowery Nixon, The Other Side of the Dark

1986 - Patricia Windsor, The Sandman's Eyes

1985 - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Night Cry

1984 - Cynthia Voight, The Callender Papers

1983 - Robbie Branscum, The Murder of Hound Dog Bates

1982 - Norma Fox Mazer, Taking Terri Mueller

1981 - Joan Lowery Nixon, The Seance

1980 - Joan Lowery Nixon, The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore

1979 - Dana Brookins, Alone in Wolf Hollow

1978 - Richard Peck, Are you in the House Alone?

1977 - Robert C. O'Brien, Z for Zachariah

1976 - Jay Bennett, The Dangling Witness

1975 - Jay Bennett, The Long Black Coat

1974 - Robb White, Deathwatch

1973 - Joan Aiken, Night Fall

1972 - John Rowe Townsend, The Intruder

1971 - Winifred Finlay, Danger at Black Dyke

1970 - Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear

1969 - Gretchen Sprague, Signpost to Terror

1968 - Kin Platt, Sinbad and Me

1967 - Leon Ware, The Mystery of 22 East

1966 - Marcella Thum, The Mystery at Crane's Landing

1965 - Phyllis A. Whitney, The Mystery of the Hidden Hand

1964 - Scott Corbett, Cutlass Island

1963 - Edward Fenton, The Phantom of Walkaway Hill

1962 - Phyllis A. Whitney, The Mystery of the Haunted Pool