The Margaret A.

Edwards Award Trivia Game

The Margaret A. Edwards Award honors an author for his or her lifetime contribution to young adult literature, as well as honoring a specific body of his or her work. Established in 1988, this annual award is administered by Young Adult Library Services Association and is sponsored by School Library Journal magazine. It recognizes an author's work in addressing adolescents questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and the world.

How well do you know the Edwards Award winners? Take this quiz and find out!

This Edwards Award-winning author was only 17 years old when she published her

first young adult book.

S.E. Hinton

This Edwards Award-winning author set a series of books in the fictional world Earthsea.

Ursula K. Le Guin

These two Edwards Award-winning authors are no longer alive.

Robert Cormier Paul Zindel

This Edwards Award-winning author wrote four books about brothers Peter and Fudge.
Judy Blume

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These two Edwards Award-winning authors attended the same high school (Stuart Hall in Virginia).

M.E. Kerr

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Anne McCaffrey

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This Edwards Award-winning author also received the first ever Printz Award.

Walter Dean Myers (Monster, 2000)

These nine Edwards Award-winning authors have books on ALAs 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books list.
S.E. Hinton Robert Cormier Lois Duncan Walter Dean Myers Judy Blume Madeleine LEngle Chris Crutcher Paul Zindel Nancy Garden

This Edwards Award-winning author uses a pen name. Her real name is Marijane Meaker. M.E. Kerr

This Edwards Award-winning author wrote a series of seven books about the Tillerman family.

Cynthia Voigt

This Edwards Award-winning author has twice run the Iditarod, a 1,180-mile annual Alaskan dog sled race.

Gary Paulsen

This Edwards Award-winning went to court to defend one of her novels from an attempt to ban it from libraries in one Kansas school district. For her efforts, she received the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award.

Nancy Garden

These two Edwards Award-winning authors attended Smith College in Massachusetts (though not at the same time). Madeleine LEngle Cynthia Voigt

This Edwards Award-winning author is also a journalist for the New York Times, and, in 1992, he was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary.

Robert Lipsyte

When she was a toddler, this Edwards Award-winning author modeled for print advertisements for Alaga Syrup in Ebony Magazine. Jacqueline Woodson

This Edwards Award-winning author was also the first woman to win the Hugo Award for science fiction and fantasy.

Anne McCaffrey

This Edwards Award-winning author is known for setting many of her books in her hometown of Los Angeles.

Francesca Lia Block

These three Edwards Award-winning authors have also won the Newbery Award.
Richard Peck (A Year Down Yonder, 2001) Cynthia Voigt (Diceys Song, 1983) Madeline LEngle (A Wrinkle in Time, 1963)

This Edwards Award-winning author wrote about her teenage daughters murder in the nonfiction book Who Killed My Daughter?

Lois Duncan

Who was Margaret A Edwards, and what did she do?

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She was an administrator of young adult programs at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.