Annal:2004 Agatha Award for Best Children’s/Young Adult
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Agatha Award in the year 2004. 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.
- 2005 Edgar-Juvenile winner
- 2004 Agatha–Children winner
- 2007 YRCA-Junior nominee
- Score: 24.55
When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one—neighbors, parents, teachers—is spared from suspicion.
As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem-solving skills, and their…
- 2004 Agatha–Children nominee
- Score: 6.54
It’s 1775, in the deep forests of North Carolina’s Cape Fear River Valley, where thousands of Scottish immigrants settled in the mid-1700s, hoping to find a peaceful home after decades of political turmoil and poverty in Scotland. One of the immigrants is 12-year-old Elspeth Monro, an orphan who lives with her grandparents, both of whom bear the scars of the long wars in Scotland.
Though the dark forest and the English townspeople of nearby Cross Creek feel very foreign to Elspeth, she is slowly beginning to feel at home in North Carolina, with a new friend…
Green Streak: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery
Daniel J. Hale, Matthew LaBrot
- 2004 Agatha–Children nominee
- Score: 6.54
Zeke Armstrong goes to New York for the Big Apple Inline Skate-Off… only to find malice in Manhattan. After another racer robs an aging heiress in Central Park, the police call it a mugging. 13 year old Zeke suspects that it’s part of a more sinister plot. Will he figure out what’s up in time to save the wealthy woman and skate the final race, or will the bad guys stop Zeke in his tracks?
