Annal:1985 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Juvenile
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1985. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Juvenile
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
- 1985 Edgar-Juvenile winner
- Score: 10.35
Ellen had never been out of the low hill country of northeastern Mississippi. Since the death of her mother many years before, and the death of her younger brother only a year or so earlier, she and her father had shared their cabin and five acres of land alone. Except for Sleet, the horse that-because he feared lightning and thunder-had thrown and killed her brother.
Ellen was terrified of Sleet. It was summer. Ellen’s father’s newest job-he had had many-was as a calendar salesman, so he was gone a great deal of the time. Her only contact with the outside…
