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Nancy Drew - YA Mysteries - The best from 1994 to 2004
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YOUNG ADULT
Top Seven YA Mysteries
Alphin, Elaine Marie. Counterfeit Son,
2000 - Edgar winner 2001 (older YA - High School)
Bunting, Eve. The Presence,
2003
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl,
2001 (See sequels below)
Farmer, Nancy. House of the Scorpion,
2002
Winner of the 2002 National Book Award, Young
People's Literature
2003 Newbery Honor Book, 2003 Michael L.
Printz Honor Book
Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker,
2000, 2001 - sequel: Point Blanc,
2002
Lawrence, Iain. The Wreckers,
1998
Sequels: The
Smugglers, 2000; The Buccaneers,
2003
Werlin, Nancy. The Killer’s
Cousin, 1998. (older YA - High School)
More Good Mysteries:
Colfer, Eoin. (Sequels to Artemis Fowl
above)
Artemis Fowl: The
Arctic Incident, 2002
Artemis Fowl: The
Eternity Code, 2003
Farmer, Nancy. The Ear, The Eye and
the Arm, 1994 - Newbery Honor book 1995
Garretson, Jerri. The Secret of
Whispering Springs, 2002
Giles, Gail. Dead Girls Don’t
Write Letters, 2003
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot.
2002 - Newbery Honor book 2003
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas. The
Ghost in the Tokkaido Inn, 1999
Sequel: The Demon
in the Teahouse, 2001
McNamee, Graham. Acceleration,
2003
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Jade
Green: A Ghost Story, 2000
Plum-Ucci, Carol. The Body of
Christopher Creed, 1999
The She,
2003
Qualey, Marsha. Close to a
Killer, 1999
Roberts, Willo Davis. (“any titles”) Twisted
Summer, 1996 - Edgar winner 1997
Vande Velde, Vivian. Never
Trust a Dead Man, 1999 - Edgar winner 2000
Werlin, Nancy. Black Mirror,
2001- Edgar winner 1999
Wynne-Jones, Tim. The Boy in
the Burning House, 2000 - Edgar winner 2002
Excellent older YA mystery titles:
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The
Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore, 1979 -
Edgar winner 1980
Whispers from the
Dead, 1989
and many more titles, including several Edgar
winners.
Pullman, Philip. The Ruby in
the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Trilogy), 1988
Sequels: Shadow
in the North, 1989; The Tiger
in the Well, 1992
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game,
1978 - Newbery Medal 1979
Thompson, Julian F. The
Grounding of Group 6, 1983, 1997
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Last Updated April 4, 2004