The Mystery Writers of America just announced the finalists for their 2009 Edgar Allen Poe Awards.
My fellow teachers out there will be most most interested in the 5 finalists in the kids novel category:
The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House Children's Books - Wendy Lamb Books)
The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie (Marshall Cavendish Children's Books)
Cemetary Street by Brenda Seabrooke (Holiday House)
"The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow" by Riford McKenzie should win for being most Poe-like (though it also has a sprinkling of Harry Potter & Roald Dahl in the mix)
My fellow teachers out there will be most most interested in the 5 finalists in the kids novel category:
The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House Children's Books - Wendy Lamb Books)
The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie (Marshall Cavendish Children's Books)
Cemetary Street by Brenda Seabrooke (Holiday House)
"The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow" by Riford McKenzie should win for being most Poe-like (though it also has a sprinkling of Harry Potter & Roald Dahl in the mix)