Annal:2000 Bram Stoker Award for Work for Young Readers
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Bram Stoker Award for Work for Young Readers
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 2000 Stoker–Youth winner
- Score: 10.5
Everyone knows that a computer’s “undo” command can erase a mistake. Gib Finney has been given a device that allows him to do the same thing—in real life. At first, the possibilities seem endless. Flunk a test; take it over again. Keep swinging at the same pitch until you finally hit the winning home run. But when his younger sister is gravely injured in a traffic accident for which he feels responsible, Gib has to figure out which events in a two-day period should be changed in order to ensure that the accident never takes place. Did it all begin when Gib and…
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Book 4 of Harry Potter
- 2001 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2000 Stoker–Youth nominee
- Score: 16.51
Harry Potter is back! A teenager pitching headfirst into the world of near adulthood, Harry returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year. Will he be allowed to play in the Quidditch World Cup? Has Lord Voldemort and his sinister cohorts, the Death Eaters, returned for murder? What will happen at the Triwizard Tournament? Will Hogwarts beat the Beauxbatons and the Durmstran? Will Harry be one of the contenders? And what about girls? All of the familiar characters are back along with several new ones in a tale that will make this book another favorite among Muggles of…
- 2000 Stoker–Youth nominee
- Score: 6.5
What scares you? Is it vampires and werewolves, or the terror that rises from the darkness of everyday life?
Be Afraid! gathers fifteen stories, twelve of them original, by award-winning authors from both the horror and young adult fields in an anthology in which the shivers are as familiar as the touch of a cold hand on the back of your neck.
Be afraid of an innocent-looking doll. Be afraid for the changes that occur to a young boy as he matures into adulthood. Be afraid for a girl who is teased by her schoolmates for having a scar that has ruined…
- 2000 Stoker–Youth nominee
- Score: 6.5
Eight-year-old Jessica Atkins wants a monster for Christmas. Not a big, mean monster; more of a friendly little one to play with when she comes home from school, and maybe scare away the mice who live in her big old London house.
But the old housekeeper, Mrs. Murgatroyd, warns her against wishing for a monster in this house. Exactly one hundred years ago the Christmas Thingy visited this very house and stole away with a load of Christmas presents.
As Mrs. Murgatroyd’s mum used to say: “Like a rose must bloom and a pig must squeal, a cow must moo and a…
