Annal:2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Young Adult
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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 Young Adult
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
- 2006 Edgar-Young Adult winner
- Score: 10.56
Steven Thomas is one of two lucky winners of the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Association’s contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It’s a basketball junkie’s dream come true!
But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court. Steven and his fellow winner, Susan Carol Anderson, are nosing around the Superdome and overhear what sounds like a threat to throw the…
Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery
- 2006 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- 2005 Agatha–Children nominee
- Score: 12.56
Welcome to Echo Falls.Home of a thousand secrets, where Ingrid Levin-Hill, super sleuth, never knows what will happen next.
Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. Getting them back means getting involved in a murder investigation rivaling those solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes, and Ingrid has enough on her plate with club soccer, school, and the plum role of Alice in the Echo Falls production of Alice in Wonderland. But much as in Alice’s adventures down the rabbit hole, things in Ingrid’s small town keep…
Silverfin: Book 1 of Young Bond Adventures
- 2006 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 6.56
What does it take to become the greatest secret agent the world has ever known? In this thrilling prequel to the James Bond series, readers meet a thirteen-year-old schoolboy whose inquisitive mind and determination set him on a path that will one day take him all over the world, in pursuit of the most dangerous criminals known to man. When we’re first introduced to young James, he’s just started boarding school at Eton in the 1930s. His first adventure is set in the Highlands of Scotland, where James spends a holiday at a remote castle. Mysterious things start…
- 2006 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 6.56
Cyril MacIntyre may only be thirteen years old, but he knows the law.
I hated law school, but if I hadn’t spent three years of my life there, I wouldn’t have known anything about fraud, blackmail or the principle of equity. In other words, I wouldn’t have known what I needed to know to save my mother’s life.
Quid Pro Quo is a high-stakes, fast-moving legal thriller about real people, and funny people at that. Cyril MacIntyre’s mother is a twenty-eight-year-old ex-street kid who drags her son to all her law school classes, then…
Live and Let Shop: Book 1 of Spy Goddess
- 2006 Edgar-Young Adult nominee
- Score: 6.56
I was never a delinquent. Not really. I’m just misunderstood. Of course, that’s not how the judge saw it.
That’s how I wound up at freaky Blackthorn Academy. Talk about boring. There isn’t even a mall nearby. I mean, what did they expect a girl from Beverly Hills to do?
Also, from the start I could tell there was something really weird about Blackthorn: The headmaster, Mr. Kim, knew way too much about me. Well, here’s something Mr. Kim didn’t know about me: Rachel Buchanan never gives up when there are secrets to uncover. Watch out, Blackthorn Academy!
