Annal:2003 Agatha Award for Best Children’s/Young Adult
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Results of the Agatha Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Agatha Award for Best Children’s/Young Adult
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
- 2003 Agatha–Children winner
- 2004 Anthony-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 16.53
The adventure of two resourceful teens, their curmudgeon uncle, his mysterious butler, and Albrecht Durer It’s summer vacation, 1896.
Wick and his brother Miles are banished to Europe for the Grand Tour with rich and cantankerous Uncle Eustace, who is on a mission to purchase art for his mansion. When the millionaire’s mysterious valet, Jose Gregorio, vanishes, Wick and Miles set off on a high-flying chase across Italy and Germany. The brothers are in search of the missing valet and six curious woodcuts by Albrecht Durer, an art superstar of the Renaissance,…
Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic
- 2003 Agatha–Children nominee
- Score: 6.53
It’s 1925, and 12-year-old Emily Scott can’t believe her luck when she and her older sister Dorothy are invited to vacation at a fancy hotel on the Jersey Shore. But Emily’s excitement turns to fear when she spots a hotel guest she recognizes from the city-a dangerous gangster! Dorothy’s busy impressing her wealthy friend, so it’s up to Emily to figure out what the sinister man is doing at the Grand Atlantic-and whether he means big trouble for the people Emily loves most!
- 2003 Agatha–Children nominee
- Score: 6.53
A new mystery based on a page from American history, featuring a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solvers.
Everyone knows that workers are using dynamite to blast an eight-mile train tunnel through the Cascade Mountains. But everyone also knows that explosives aren’t allowed inside the isolated camp town of Scenic where the workers and their families live. So why did somebody hide a case of dynamite right near the schoolhouse? And why has it disappeared again? That’s what ten-year old Billy and his best friend Finn want to know. Then a sudden…
The Secret of the Equestrian Park
- 2003 Agatha–Children nominee
- Score: 6.53
The Secret of the Equestrian Park Alison Leigh Powers, 11, Super Sleuth, and friend, Melissa Chan, investigate who is causing the “accidents” at Dawson’s Stables!
