Mystery lovers start early.
Beginning with Nate the Great, Cam Jansen & Encyclopedia Brown through Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, young readers sleuth along with their favorite detectives or
solve the case in stand-alone stories.
Both the Mystery Writers Association and Malice Domestic recognize that
juvenile mysteries represent a valid category and award prizes in Children’s and
Young Adult every year. This year’s
nominees for books published in 2015 offer cozy and gritty, sleuths from today and yesteryear (even one
dog) and puzzles most ingenious.
Edgar Award nominees
– sponsored by the Mystery Writers’ Association
Best Juvenile
Catch You Later,Traitor by Avi
Well-known children’s author Avi, who is known for his award-winning
historical fiction and animal adventures, also writes mysteries. This time it's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete
Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective
books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's
doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a
real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?
If You Find This
by Matthew Baker
When the grandfather he never knew is released from prison
suffering from dementia, eleven-year-old Nicholas, a mathematical and musical
genius, tries to save the family's home by helping search for heirlooms Grandpa
claims to have buried.
The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver
The author of popular paranormal suspense for teens and
adults throws in a mystery in her new series The Curiosity House. Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in
order to save to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities,
and Wonders.
The Blackthorn Key
by Kevin Sands
In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe,
apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth
behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and
danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.
Footer Davis Probably is Crazy by Susan Vaught
Eleven-year-old Footer and her friends investigate when a
nearby farm is burned, the farmer murdered, and his children disappear, but as
they follow the clues, Footer starts having flashbacks and wonders if she is
going crazy like her mother, who is back in a mental institution near their
Mississippi home.
Best Young Adult
When Lauren (Panda), a teen photoblogger, gets involved in a
deadly game, she has to protect the classmates she despises.
A Madness So Discreet
by Mindy McGinnis
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow
helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after
becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio, where they put her
intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.
The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
For four years sixteen-year-old Twylla has lived in the
castle of Lormere, as the Goddess embodied, whose touch can poison and kill,
and hence the Queen's executioner--but when Prince Merek, her betrothed, who is
immune to her touch returns to the kingdom she finds herself caught up in
palace intrigues, unsure if she can trust him or the bodyguard who claims to
love her.
The Walls Around Us
by Nova Ren Suma
Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but
when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is
accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets
Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.
Ask the Dark by
Henry Turner
To keep his family in their home, fourteen-year-old juvenile
delinquent Billy Zeets does odd jobs to raise money, but when he tries to
locate a missing schoolmate for the reward, Billy inadvertently makes himself
the target of a serial killer.
Agatha Award Nominees
– sponsored by Malice Domestic
Best Children’s
/Young Adult
This series of Chicago
based, art themed mysteries continues when thirteen high-value pieces of art
are stolen from a secret museum, Calder, Petra, and Tommy are grouped with two
new companions to solve puzzles that are complicated by the clever Mrs. Sharpe.
Need by Joelle
Charbonneau
In this exploration of the dark side of social media, and
government control and manipulation, the teenagers in a small town are drawn
deeper and deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their
every need--regardless of the consequences.
Be careful what you wish for – you might just get it.
Andi Unstoppable by Amanda Flower
Andi Boggs and her best friend Colin Carter return to solve
another mystery in her adopted small town home. School has begun for the two Killdeer
middle-schoolers, and their science teacher has a great idea. He is a birder
and wants his class to share in the fun. In a birding group with Colin and her
biggest school rival, Ava, Andi sets out to be the first student in class to
spot the elusive Kirtland's Wrabler...but end up spotting the town's resident
ghost instead! Good clean fun harking back to Nancy Drew type mysteries.
Woof: a Bowser and Birdie Novel by Spencer Quinn
Bowser is a mutt, just adopted by eleven-year-old Birdie
Gaux and her grandmother, but when they all get home to Grammy's bait and
tackle shop in the bayou they discover that their prize stuffed marlin has been
stolen--so Bowser decides to investigate, and things quickly become complicated
and dangerous. Spencer Quinn has also written the bestselling Chet and Bernie mysteries for adult dog lovers and, as PeterAbrahams, the award-winning Echo Falls mysteries
Fighting Chance by
B.K. Stevens
When his coach and mentor is killed at a tae kwon do
tournament, seventeen-year-old Matt Foley suspects that it was not a tragic
accident, but deliberate murder, and investigates himself.
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