Edgar Awards Nominees and Winners

The Edgar Award winners of the YA and Juvenile categories are: Rat Life by Tedd Arnold and The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh. It was announced on May 1st. Congrats to the winners. Of course, the nominated titles are worthy of note as well. Here they are:

Best Young Adult

* Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers) - WINNER
* Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
* Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
* Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
* Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Simon Pulse)



Best Juvenile

* The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
* Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman (American Girl Publications)
* Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books)
* The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers) - WINNER
* Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House Children's Books - Alfred A. Knopf)