Monica Hesse's 'Girl In The Blue Coat'

1. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, often called The Edgar Awards, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. Based in New York City, The M.W.A focuses to honor talent since the late 1950’s. Therefore, it allows for all books, short stories, and television shows that require a sense of mystery, crime, suspense, or intriguing fields that qualify for The Edgar Awards. However, it is not quite easy to apply. According to the Mystery Writers of America’s official website, the requirements of participating and qualify for the criteria focuses on, “All… fields are eligible for Edgar® Awards in their respective category if they were published or produced for the first time in the U.S. during the [2018] calendar year. Books from non-U.S.

One of the books that was recognized for an Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Award in the year 2017 for a book that focues on fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. Monica Hesse published, “Girl in the Blue Coat,” in April 5, 2016 and it became a sensation aftewards. To emphasize, the summary of the book is about a girl named Hanneke who works in procuring and delivering goods in the black market for customers as an act of rebellion aggainst the Nazis. However, Hanneke is put into a position where she is asked for help to find a missing Jewish teenager, but does not want anything to do with it, yet she is drawn to the mysteries and revelations that lead to her seeing horrors from the Nazi’s and takes action. According to the CLCD, this book has three awards aside from the Edgar Awards. The awards are Cocheco Readers’ Award 2016 for Chapter Book, Cybils Award 2016, nominee, for Young Adult Fiction, and Indies Choice Book Award 2017, finalist, for Young Adult Book. Nevertheless, in my opinion, from what I have read on the reviews and the brief summary of the book, I do see why this book has been recognized so much. The author is writing about history that will definitely attract people and incorporating a mysterious side to it is quite fascinating. Monica Hesse was able to capture the meaning of the Edgar

In my perspective, I believe that this award is a great fit for society. It is a form of having creative minds create great fictional stories or films to allow those who are not writers or producers to get lost in a different world. Aside from that, this award allows an important contribution to the mysteries that have surrounded our world over time. It gives color to society, if it makes sense. However, as much as I percieve this award to be a great fit for society, I do believe that some will disagree to it. To clarify, since the work awarded by the Edgar’s revolve around mystery, crime, fiction, and suspense it does beg to differ that parents or educators will not allow for this type of stories to be introduced to their kids or students. Even then, maybe films that portray these categories will raise contraversies as