Edgar Award Winner 2014

The winners of the 2014 Edgar Awards were announced on May 1st in New York City.  And the winner for Best Juvenile Mystery went to... One Came Home by Amy Timberlake!  Check out the complete list of nominees and winners.

In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters .

2013 Edgar Award Winner

The winners of the 2013 Edgar Awards were announced on May 2nd in New York City.  And the winner for Best Juvenile Mystery went to... The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo!  Check out the complete list of nominees and winners.

The Quick Fix

When the star of the basketball team is blackmailed, it is up to Matt Stevens, the lone voice for justice in corrupt Franklin Middle School, to uncover who is behind the scheme--Vinny "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, his deputy Kevin Carling, or perhaps the scheming Thompson twins.

Edgar Award Nominations

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2013 Edgar Awards!  The awards will be presented at a gala banquet in New York City on May 2, 2013. 

Here are the nominations for Best Juvenile Mystery.  Read the books and decide who you think should win!

Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Savedthe U.S. Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind by Tom Angleberger

Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend, Casper, and world domination as Casper uses a spectacularly convincing fake mustache and the ability to hypnotize to rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run for president.

13 Hangmen by Art Corriveau

"Some people won't believe any of this story. You might be one of them. But every single word is true. Tony DiMarco does catch a murderer, solve a mystery, and find a treasure--all in the first few days after he moves, unexpectedly, to 13 Hangmen's Court in Boston. The fact that he also turns thirteen at the same time is not a coincidence." So begins the story of Tony and his friends--five 13-year-old boys, all of whom are living in the same house in the same attic bedroom but at different times in history! None are ghosts, all are flesh and blood, and somehow all have come together in the attic room, visible only to one another. And all are somehow linked to a murder, a mystery, and a treasure.

The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo

When the star of the basketball team is blackmailed, it’s up to Matt, the lone voice for justice in a morass of middle school corruption, to figure out who’s behind the scheme. Is it eighth-grade crime lord Vinny “Mr. Biggs” Biggio, who has made his name peddling forged hall passes and leading a crew of social assassins who send enemies to the Outs with a humiliating squirt-gun blast below the belt? Or is it his lieutenant and Matt’s former best friend, Kevin? Or a pair of scheming twins who sell Pixy Stix to sugar-addicted classmates? One thing’s for sure: There won’t be a quick fix for the trouble at this middle school.

Spy School by Stuart Gibbs

Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

2012 Edgar Award Winner

The winner of the 2012 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery was announced on April 26th in New York City.  The winner is... Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby!  Congratulations!

2012 Edgar Award Nominees

The nominations for the 2012 Edgar Awards were announced yesterday by the Mystery Writers of America. The Edgars, named after Edgar Allan Poe, honor the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction. Winners will be announced on April 26th in New York.

The nominees for Best Juvenile Mystery are:

Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger
Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.







It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Brixton Brothers #3)
Seventh-grader Steve Brixton finds himself pulled back into sleuthing when, during a train trip down the California coast, he uncovers a mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, an assassin, and a private rail car.






Vanished by Sheela Chari
Eleven-year-old Neela must solve the mystery when her beautiful, but cursed, veena, a classical Indian musical instrument, goes missing.









Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby
Princess Solveig and her siblings are trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen fjord, along with her best friend and an army of restless soldiers, all awaiting news of the king's victory in battle, but as they wait for winter's end and the all-encompassing ice to break, acts of treachery make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst.





The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey
In 1877, in an enchantment shop on the last of the Faerie roads linking New York City to the Land of the Fey, just after twelve-year-old Oona opts to relinquish her apprenticeship to her uncle, the Wizard, and become a detective, her uncle is stabbed, testing her skills.




Which do you think should win? Read the nominees and leave your thoughts in the comments!

2011 Edgar Award Winner

The 2011 Edgar Awards were presented on April 28, 2011 and the winner for Best Juvenile Mystery went to...


....The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler

While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, Buddy the dog is adopted by another family and helps solve the mystery of their missing boy.

Congrats!

Other nominees for Best Juvenile Mystery were:

• Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon
  


• The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee



• Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol by Jim Krieg



• The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. Winters

2009 Edgar Award Winner

The 2009 Edgar Award winners were announced on April 30th. The nominees for Best Juvenile Mystery were:

• Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base
• Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
• The Postcard by Tony Abbott
• The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie
• Cemetery Street by Brenda Seabrooke

And the winner is... The Postcard by Tony Abbott!

While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to help clean out his recently-deceased grandmother's house, thirteen-year-old Jason finds an old postcard which leads him on an adventure that blends figures from an old, unfinished detective story with his family's past.

2008 Edgar Award Winner

On May 1st the 2008 Edgar award winners were announced (mystery awards named after Edgar Allen Poe - for more information see the Mystery Writers of America website). The nominees for Best Juvenile mystery were:

• The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch


• Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman


• Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn


• The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh


• Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen

And the winner is... The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh

Jack Perdu, a ninth-grade Classics prodigy, lives with his father on the Yale University campus. Smart and introverted, Jack spends most of his time alone, his nose buried in a book. But one winter evening, a near-fatal accident changes Jack's life forever.

His father sends him to see a mysterious doctor in New York City - where Jack hasn't been since his mother died there eight years ago. In Grand Central Terminal, he meets Euri, a girl who offers to show him the train station's hidden places - the ones only true urban explorers really know about. Eight flights below the station, however, Jack discovers more than just hidden tracks and mysterious staircases. He has stumbled upon New York's ghostly underworld. This, Jack believes, is his chance to see his mother again. But as secrets about Euri's past are revealed, so are the true reasons for Jack's visit to the underworld.

Come in to the library today and check out one of these great mysteries!