Annal:1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Juvenile
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1999. 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.
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
- 1999 Edgar-Juvenile winner
- Score: 10.49
With this debut book of a new mystery series, Wendelin Van Draanen establishes Samantha Keyes as a crime fighter to watch. Though, actually, the book opens with Sammy watching…a crime in progress. And when the man with the wad of cash in one hand and the open purse in the other catches Sammy watching him, the chase is on—but is Sammy on the trail of the thief, or is he on hers? If the police don’t believe Sammy’s story about a thief with black gloves, black glasses, and a black beard, she isn’t too surprised. Vice principal Caan didn’t exactly believe her either…
