Annal:2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Juvenile
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2002. 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.
- 2002 Edgar-Juvenile winner
- Score: 10.52
On a shimmery summer day, eleven-year-old Ben watches his too tall, bird-crazy best friend, Ring, wade into the river. Everyone else is laughing and talking on the riverbank, paying no mind. Ring turns and gives them all one last look…and disappears.
Day after agonizing day, Ben waits for the news of his friend. In the meantime, he tries to sort out a jumble of thoughts and memories so he can get things straight in his head about Ring. From his outlandish stories to his evasiveness about his background, Ring has been a mystery from the first. But if Ben dares…
Bug Muldoon: The Garden of Fear
- 2002 Edgar-Juvenile nominee
- Score: 6.52
The name’s Muldoon—Bug Muldoon. And he’s the best private investigator in the whole Garden, not to mention the cheapest. Things are pretty slow for Bug, until a few earwigs come strolling into his office. At first Bug thinks it’s your everyday, missing-earwig case, but the facts aren’t adding up and the ants are acting strangely. It’s up to Bug to set things straight-before he gets himself squished.
- 2002 Edgar-Juvenile nominee
- Score: 6.52
Homer Aldrich Winthrop was a neurologist who died of a neurological illness. That’s all Homer Jr.’s mother will say about his father, who died when he was 2, and any prodding for details results in silence,
evasion, or sudden migraine headaches. So by age 12, Homer’s given up asking.
But on an unexpected trip to Maine, Homer finds himself in a place where his father had lived. In this one coastal village there must be millions of facts about his father. Now Homer must face his biggest fear–maybe there’s a reason his father is such a secret. Maybe there are…
- 2002 Anthony-Young Adult nominee
- 2002 Edgar-Juvenile nominee
- Score: 12.52
Charlotte is looking forward to spending the summer in her new home-she has her own bedroom, a nearby pool, a friendly neighbor, and there’s a big block party coming up. Then her little brother suddenly starts asking for his new friend, “Susie.” Is someone else playing with him? Someone only he can see? Soon Charlotte realizes that her all-too-normal house is haunted-by the ghost of a girl who doesn’t realize that she’s dead…
- 2002 Edgar-Juvenile nominee
- Score: 6.52
The ghost of a young soldier from the Civil War haunts a troubled teen.
“I sat up. The jagged trenches were only soft grassy depressions in the sunny battlefield park. I felt tears burn my eyes, the relief was so strong, and then the misery of losing the ghost hit me.”
Alexander has the ability to see ghosts. But it’s been several years since his last encounter. When he reluctantly joins his father on a long trip away from home, a surprise awaits him. In the unfamiliar territory of North Carolina, Alexander is confronted by the ghost…
