Annal:1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Young Adult
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Young Adult
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
- 1995 Edgar-Young Adult winner
- Score: 10.45
Sixteen-year-old Shawn must deal with his loss and anger after witnessing his older brother’s murder.
- 1995 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 6.45
Miranda isn’t happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda’s anger turns to shock when she learns the girl’s horrible secret: Abby’s parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town—more than three hundred years ago. Somehow Abby survived the fire and has been living in a virtual limbo ever since.
Fifteen-year-old Miranda Browne, the extraordinary protagonist from Kathryn Reiss’s first novel, Time Windows, returns for a new time-travel adventure.
- 1995 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 6.45
Following the mysterious death of her stepmother, Chelsea and her best friend Amber attempt to snare the killer, but instead find themselves wrapped up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
- 1995 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 6.45
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect there is something sinister going on involving a secret gang of high school students and a company illegally storing toxic waste.
- 1995 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 6.45
One night, in the middle of a particularly scary story, these five people make a pact with each other that says that the fist one of them who dies is to make every effort to contact the others- from beyond the grave.
