Annal:2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Juvenile
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Juvenile
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
- 2006 Edgar-Juvenile winner
- Score: 10.56
Paolo calls Rufus “a Mack truck with no one driving.” Rufus is the O’Neil family dog, and he shows up one morning with part of a twenty-dollar bill in his teeth.
Paolo, age twelve, figures that there must be more where that bill came from, and since his cousin Billy needs to repair a bent wheel on his bike, there’s a reason for looking. He, Georgie, and Billy end up in the monsignor’s garden behind the Cathedral of San Joaquin, but it’s not exactly treasure they find, it’s a hand that shoots out of the undergrowth to grab Paolo’s neck. The search for the stash leads the boys—sometimes scared spitless—on many a byway around Orange Grove City, California, in the summer of 1951. And onto the byway of conscience.
“Suppose you found a treasure. Couldn’t you keep it?” Paolo asks his uncle. “I mean, say you know who it belongs to, and they probably need it….But when you find it, nobody has it. Isn’t nobody’s property in particular, then,” he reasons. “Well, maybe somebody has it, but it isn’t theirs. It would be yours, wouldn’t it?”
No answer.
“How in the heck is a guy supposed to be somebody in this world without any money?”
- 2006 Edgar-Juvenile nominee
- 2008 YRCA-Junior nominee
- Score: 10.56
When Hero starts sixth grade at a new school, she’s less concerned about the literary origins of her Shakespearean name than about the teasing she’s sure to suffer because of it. So she has the same name as a girl in a book by a dusty old author. Hero is simply not interested in the connections. But that’s just the thing; suddenly connections are cropping up all over, and odd characters and uncertain pasts are exactly what do fascinate Hero. There’s a mysterious diamond hidden in her new house, a curious woman next door who seems to know an awful lot about it, and then, well, then there’s Shakespeare. Not to mention Danny Cordova, only the most popular boy in school. Is it all in keeping with her namesake’s origin-just much ado about nothing? Hero, being Hero, is determined to figure it out.
In this fast-paced novel, Elise Broach weaves an intriguing literary mystery full of historical insights and discoveries.
The Case of the Nana-Napper: A Wright and Wong Mystery
- 2006 Edgar-Juvenile nominee
- Score: 6.56
- 2006 Edgar-Juvenile nominee
- Score: 6.56
All Skeet Waters wants is to catch a big, beautiful tarpon on his fly rod—and to keep everything else in his life in Florida the way it’s always been. But on his spring break from school, Skeet overhears his mother telling his father to move out permanently. Then, while riding in his boat to escape his parents’ troubles, he discovers a manatee that’s been shot in the head. Skeet puts aside his search for the manatee and its killer when Dirty Dan the Tarpon Man offers to take him out to catch his first tarpon on a fly. Because of Dan, Skeet begins to unravel the mysteries surrounding the manatee’s apparent murder and his parents’ dissolving marriage.
Skeet discovers that life is a lot like tarpon fishing, in which you can’t look just at the surface of the water—you have to look through it, at what lies beneath.
- 2005 Agatha–Children winner
- 2006 Edgar-Juvenile nominee
- 2008 YRCA-Intermediate nominee
- Score: 20.55
You know it’s going to be a rough summer when you spend Father’s Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.
Noah’s dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor–which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can’t prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah’s dad is stuck in the clink.
Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally…somehow. His allies may not add up to much–his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter; Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene; Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned; and a mysterious pirate–but Noah’s got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all.
