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 AmericaNeimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture", collected in The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge University Press, 2002. . p. 206. and they remain the most prestigious awards in the mystery genre.
Winners
1960s YearAuthorTitleResult1961Winner1962Winner1963Cutlass IslandWinner1964Mystery of the Hidden HandWinner1965Mystery at Crane's LandingWinner1966Winner1967Sinbad and MeWinner1968Signpost to TerrorWinner1969Winner
1970s YearAuthorTitleResult1970Danger at Black DykeWinner1971Winner1972Night FallWinner1973DeathwatchWinner1974Winner1975Winner1976Z for ZachariahWinner1977Are You in the House Alone?Winner1978Winner1979Alone in Wolf HollowWinner
1980s YearAuthorTitleResult1980Winner1981Winner1982Taking Terri MuellerWinner1983Winner1984Winner1985Night CryWinner1986Winner1987Winner1988Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, ShrinksWinner1989Megan's IslandWinner
1990s YearAuthorTitleResult1991StonewordsWinner1992Wanted...Mud BlossomWinner1993Coffin on a Case!Winner1994Winner1995Winner1996Looking for Jamie BridgerWinner1997Winner1998Sparrows in the SculleryWinner1999Sammy Keyes and the Hotel ThiefWinner
2000s YearAuthorTitleResult2000Winner2001Dovey CoeWinner2002DanglingWinner2003Harriet Spies AgainWinner2004Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the BelfryWinner2005Chasing VermeerWinner2006Winner2007Room One: a Mystery or TwoWinner2008Winner2009Winner
2010s +2010s Best Juvenile winnersYearAuthorTitleResult2010Closed for the SeasonWinner2011Winner2012IcefallWinnerHorton Halfpott ShortlistIt Happened on a Train Vanished 2013Winner2014One Came HomeWinnerStrike Three, You’re Dead ShortlistMoxie and the Art of Rule Breaking P. K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man2015Greenglass HouseWinnerAbsolutely TrulyShortlistSpace Case and Steve HockensmithNick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove Saving Kabul CornerEddie Red, Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile2016Footer Davis Probably Is CrazyWinnerAviCatch You Later, TraitorShortlistIf You Find This and H. C. ChesterCuriosity House: The Shrunken Head 2017OCDanielWinnerSummerlost ShortlistThe Bad Kid Some Kind of Happiness Framed! Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry 2018Vanished!WinnerAudacity Jones Steals the Show ShortlistThe Assassin’s CurseFirst Class Murder NewsPrints 2019OtherwoodWinnerDenis Ever After ShortlistZap! Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective Winterhouse Charlie & FrogZora & Me: The Cursed Ground
2020s +2020s Best Juvenile winnersYearAuthorTitleResult2020Me and Sam-Sam Handle the ApocalypseWinnerShortlistEventownAll the Greys on Greene Street2021Premeditated MyrtleWinnerMe and Banksy ShortlistFrom the Desk of Zoe Washington Ikenga Nessie Quest Coop Knows the Scoop 2022ConcealedWinnerCold-Blooded Myrtle ShortlistAggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Dead Man in the Garden and Sam Sedgman Kidnap on the California Comet: Adventures on Trains #2 Rescue2023Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside CorpseWinnerShortlist and Sam Sedgman Adventures on Trains: Murder on the Safari Star Chester Keene Cracks the Code2024WinnerMyrtle, Means, and Opportunity ShortlistEpic Ellisons: Cosmos Camp and Iva Marie PalmerWhat Happened to Rachel Riley?2025Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen KeyWinnerShortlistMystery of Mystic MountainFind Her2026Blood in the WaterWinnerMontgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum ShortlistWhat Happened Then Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave
References
External links The official website of Edgar Awards