Annal:2002 Bram Stoker Award for Work for Young Readers
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 2002. 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.
- 2002 Stoker–Youth winner
- 2003 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
- 2005 YRCA-Junior nominee
- Score: 20.52
The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring….
In Coraline’s family’s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only it’s different.
At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there’s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.- 2002 Stoker–Youth nominee
- Score: 6.52
It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. Candy Quackenbush lives in Chickentown, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.
When the answer comes, it’s not one she expects. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away.
Where? To the ABARAT: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from the Great Head that sits in the mysterious twilight waters of Eight in the Evening, to the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of Gorgossium, the island of Midnight, ruled over by the Prince of Midnight himself, Christopher Carrion.
As Candy journeys from one amazing place to another, making fast friends and encountering treacherous foes—mechanical bugs and giant moths, miraculous cats and men made of mud, a murderous wizard and his terrified slave-she begins to realize something. She has been here before.
Candy has a place in this extraordinary…Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural
- 2002 Stoker–Youth nominee
- Score: 6.52
Richard Matheson, William Stout
- 2002 Stoker–Youth nominee
- Score: 6.52



