Annal:2006 Agatha Award for Best Children’s/Young Adult
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Agatha Award in the year 2006. 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.
- 2006 Agatha–Children winner
- Score: 10.56
Zoe Elwood’s know-it-all brother Kelby has started the Northern Spy Club-named after a variety of apple in their father’s Vermont orchard-and declared himself President. To get into the club one must walk a narrow beam over rusted farm machinery, and solve a crime. In this case, the crime involves Alice Fairweather’s grandmother, who has expired after eating a bowl of pea soup. According to Kelby, the elderly Bagley Sisters across the street who made the soup must be guilty. But Zoe is fond of the Bagley Sisters and asks her friend Spencer to help her uncover clues that will prove the sisters are innocent. Solving the crime and walking the high beam in the barn are something that Zoe is determined to prove a girl can do just as well as a boy.
Behind the Curtain: An Echo Falls Mystery
- 2006 Agatha–Children nominee
- Score: 6.56
In echo falls you never know what’s coming next—and everyone has a secret. Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane: Ingrid’s dad’s job is in jeopardy, but he won’t explain why. Ingrid’s brother, Ty, is getting buff—really buff—but when Ty starts getting moody, Ingrid wonders if there’s more to his physical fitness than lifting weights. Meanwhile, Ingrid’s beloved soccer coach is replaced by an icy newcomer named Julia LeCaine, who seems a little too savvy to be in it for the postgame pizza. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who’s really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Even if she escapes, will anyone believe her story?
Room One: A Mystery or Two
- 2007 Edgar-Juvenile winner
- 2006 Agatha–Children nominee
- 2009 YRCA-Junior nominee
- Score: 20.57
Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he’s working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? But the mystery that has Ted’s full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the Andersons’ house as he rides past on his paper route.
A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don’t seem to be related. But Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there’s no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas: (Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars)
- 2006 Agatha–Children nominee
- Score: 6.56
Sherlock Holmes stories captured readers' imaginations for more than a century. Now Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin will capture the hearts of a new generation with a unique new twist on these beloved mysteries. Few know: Holmes was assisted by a band of devoted boys, street urchins who loved to solve mysteries, called the Baker Street Irregulars. These boys go everywhere, see everything, overhear everyone undetected. Now, in this exciting tale, Wiggins, Ozzie, Simon, and the rest—with the aid of Pilar, a gypsy girl—help Sherlock Holmes solve the case of the deaths of the Amazing Walendas.
