Award Winners - Edgar Allen Poe Award for Mysteries
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- 2007 +CLEME - Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family.Also Available In: - 2006 +SMITH - The Boys of San Joaquin by D. James Smith
In a small California town in 1951, twelve-year-old Paolo and his deaf cousin Billy get caught up in a search for money missing from the church collection, leading them to complicated discoveries about themselves, other family members, and townspeople they thought they knew. - 2005 +BALLI - Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.Also Available In: - 2004 +NAYLO - Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Many residents of Middleburg, Indiana, are already going crazy from the ever-ringing church bells and now, after a bat is spotted in the hotel run by Bernie's family, they worry that the dangerous Indiana Aztec bat has finally arrived. - 2003 +ERICS - Harriet Spies Again by Helen Ericson
Harriet M. Welsch has just received the best news of her 11th year--Ole Golly is coming back! But the circumstances of her return are unclear. Wehre is Geroge Waldenstein?Also Available In: - 2002 Dangling by Lillian Eige
Eleven-year-old Ben recalls his relationship with his unusual friend Ring, who walked into the river and disappeared one day. - 2001 +DOWEL - Dovey Coe by Frances O'Roark Dowell
When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother. - 2000 +JONES - The Night Flyers by Elizabeth McDavid Jones
In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.Also Available In: - 1999 +VANDR - Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen
Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother. - 1998 +WALLA - Sparrows in the Scullery by Barbara Brooks Wallace
Despite horrible conditions at the boys' home where kidnappers left him, eleven-year-old Colley, an orphan, finds a reason and a way to live, along with comradeship.Also Available In: - 1997 The Clearing by Dorothy Reynolds Miller
While spending the summer with her cousins in rural Pennsylvania, eleven-year-old Amanda becomes involved with a long-ago tragedy that has impacted the lives of many local residents. - 1996 Looking for Jamie Bridger by Nancy Springer
Fourteen-year-old Jamie Bridger is determined to find out who her real parents were in spite of opposition from the grandparents who raised her, but her search ends in a bittersweet discovery. - 1995 +ROBER - The Absolutely True Story...How I Visited Yellowstone Park With the Terrible Rupes by Willo Davis Roberts
What they thought would be a dream vacation turns into a nightmare for twelve-year-old Lewis and his twin sister Alison, when they accompany their irresponsible new neighbors on a trip to Yellowstone Park and are chased by two mysterious men. - 1994 +WALLA - The Twin in the Tavern by Barbara Brooks Wallace
A young orphan, afraid of being sent to the workhouse, finds himself at the mercy of the unsavory owner of a tavern in Alexandria, Virginia, while he tries to solve the mystery surrounding his past and a missing twin.Also Available In: - 1993 +BUNTI - Coffin on a Case by Eve Bunting
Twelve-year-old Henry Coffin, the son of a private investigator, helps a gorgeous high school girl in her dangerous attempt to find her kidnapped mother. - 1992 +BYARS - Wanted--Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars
Convinced that Mud is responsible for the disappearance of the school hamster that was his responsibility for the weekend, Junior Blossom is determined that the dog should be tried for his "crime." - 1991 +CONRA - Stonewords: A Ghost Story by Pam Conrad
Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event. - 1989 +ROBER - Megan's Island by Willo Davis Roberts
First eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them. - 1988 +SHREV - Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks by Susan Shreve
Two sixth graders with a pretend psychiatry practice come upon a small mute child from an orphanage and determine they are going to use all their knowledge to help her to talk. - 1987 The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon
Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.Only Available In: - 1986 The Sandman's Eyes by Patricia Windsor
Angry because he was confined in a school for disturbed juveniles for two years after witnessing a murder, upon his release eighteen-year-old Michael seeks to prove his innocence by tracking down the killer only he saw. - 1985 +NAYLO - Night Cry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Often left alone on their five-acre Mississippi farm by her traveling-salesman father, Ellen learns, through a terrifying experience, to distinguish between real and false fears. - 1984 +VOIGT - The Callender Papers by Cynthia Voigt
In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child. - 1983 The Murder of Hound Dog Bates by Robbie Branscum
When Sassafras Bates finds his dog dead, he suspects that one of his three spinster aunts is the murderer. - 1982 YA MAZER - Taking Terri Mueller by Norma Fox Mazer
Fourteen-year-old Terri remembers only life with her father, but then she discovers that he kidnapped her from her mother after a divorce and that her mother is still alive. - 1981 +NIXON - The Seance by Joan Lowery Nixon
The séance started as a game, but it led to murder and terror for the people of a small east Texas community. - 1980 YA NIXON - The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon
A teenage girl is kidnapped, but when freed, is accused of masterminding the scheme to extort money from her wealthy grandmother. - 1979 +BROOK - Alone in Wolf Hollow by Dana Brookins
Two orphaned brothers come to live with their uncle in Wolf Hollow and stumble onto a murder case. - 1978 +MCGRA - A Really Weird Summer by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Four children in Oregon spend the summer of their parents' divorce with a little-known great aunt and uncle. - 1977 YA PECK - Are You in the House Alone by Richard Peck
As the recipient of threatening notes and phone calls, a high school girl becomes aware that she is under constant observation.Also Available In: - 1976 Z For Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
Seemingly the only person left alive after the holocaust of a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.Only Available In: - 1975 Dangling Witness by Jay Bennett
An eighteen-year-old boy who witnesses a murder decides to keep quiet after he is threatened by the killer, but finds his silence increasingly hard to bear. - 1974 The Long Black Coat by Jay Bennett
Seventeen-year-old Phil is terrorized by two of his dead brother's associates from Vietnam who demand from him a package he knows nothing about. - 1973 Deathwatch by Robb White
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life. - 1972 Nightfall by Joan Aiken
Haunted by a recurrent nightmare, a young English girl travels to Cornwall to trace the source of the dream. - 1971 +TOWNS - The Intruder by John Rowe Townsend
The life of a sixteen-year-old English boy begins to change when a stranger claiming to be a relative appears in the village. - 1970 +FINLA - Danger at Black Dyke by Winfred Finlay
Using their knowledge of Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland three youngsters hide a mysterious man whom they later discover was a potential pawn for an unsuccessful Latin American Revolution. - 1969 +HAMIL - The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.Also Available In: - 1968 +SPRAG - Signpost to Terror by Gretchen Sprague
A fifteen-year-old girl who goes hiking by herself when her friend is unable to go finds herself on a desperate flight through the mountains. - 1967 Sinbad and Me by Kin Platt
- 1966 +WARE - The Mystery of 22 East by Leon Ware
- 1965 Mystery at Crane's Landing by Marcella Thum
- 1964 +WHITN - Mystery of the Hidden Hand by Phyllis A. Whitney
- 1963 Cutlass Island by Scott Corbett
- 1962 The Phantom of Walkaway Hill by Edward Fenton
- 1961 +WHITN - The Mystery of the Haunted Pool by Phyllis A. Whitney
