Annal:2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Young Adult
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2001. 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.
- 2001 Edgar-Young Adult winner
- Score: 10.51
Cameron Miller is pretending to be someone he isn’t. When he began presenting himself as Neil Lacey, it was the only way he could think of to distance himself from what Pop had done, to finally climb out of his nightmarish existence. He thought it would be easy—playing the rich kid, sailing his boat—but he didn’t count on Cougar. Now Cougar, his father’s old accomplice, has tracked Cameron down and presented an ultimatum: Share the wealth or be exposed. Will Cameron give up his new identity to protect Neil’s family? Or will he let his search for a new life destroy those around him?
- 2001 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 6.51
Marnie is tremendously wealthy, and tremendously alone. The 16-year-old daughter of a superstar who was killed years ago in a plane crash, Marnie refuses to take part in her oppressive boarding-school community. She would rather burrow away in the dark, comforting world of her favorite Internet adventure game—especially now that she has started chatting online with another player, an intriguing rogue who calls himself the Elf.
But closing herself off from the people around her doesn’t mean she’s safe, as Marnie soon discovers. Kidnapped, locked inside an empty basement cell, Marnie is forced to confront painful truths about herself and her famous mother, as she desperately tries to escape her jailer. Oh, how little her cyber-adventure game has prepared her for this real-life dungeon! And how she longs for just one more battle of wits with her mischievous Elf!
- 2001 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 6.51
On Wednesday, November 25, at 2:43 P. M., Eastern Standard Time, Branwell Zamborska is struck dumb. Nikki, his baby half sister, has slipped into a coma. Branwell dials 911, but when the emergency operator answers, he cannot speak. He cannot explain what is wrong. He cannot utter a sound.
Vivian Shawcurt, the au pair from England, takes over. She tells the emergency medical team that Branwell dropped Nikki and shook her.
Nikki is taken to the Clarion County Hospital, and Branwell is sent to the Clarion County Juvenile Behavioral Center.
Branwell’s dad asks Connor, Branwell’s best friend, to visit the Behavioral Center to see if he can break the silence and find out what happened. Connor knows that Branwell loves Nikki. Why would he hurt her?
Connor finds a way to communicate with Branwell and, with the help of Margaret, his older half sister, he begins to investigate the events leading up to the silence. Slowly he discovers what Branwell’s problems really are and what it takes to help Branwell reveal what happened that Wednesday afternoon.
More than a detective story—though…
- 2001 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- 2001 Printz honor
- Score: 12.51
Chris Creed grew up as the class freak—the bullies’ punching bag. After he vanished, the weirdness that had once surrounded him began spreading. It was as if a darkness reached out of his void to grab at the most normal, happy people—like some twisted joke or demented form of justice. It tore the town apart. Sixteen-year-old Torey Adams’s search for answers opens his eyes to the lies, the pain, and the need to blame when tragedy strikes, and his once-safe world comes crashing down around him.
