2015 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Nominees High School - Abraham Lincoln Award Nominees

High School - Abraham Lincoln Award Nominees

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Illinois High School Book AwardNominees

The 5th Waveby Rick Yancy

After the 1st Wave, only darkness remains.

After the 2nd, only the lucky escape.

And, after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive.

After the 4th Wave, just one rule applies: trust no one.


Anna Dressed in Bloodby Kendare Blake

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before.


Ask the Passengersby A.S King

Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhead. She doesn't know the passengers inside, but they're the only people who won't judge her when she asks them her most personal questions--like what it means that she's falling in love with a girl.


The Beginning of Everythingby Robyn Schneider

Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes everyone has a tragedy waiting for them—a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. His particular tragedy waited until he was primed to lose it all: in one spectacular night, a reckless driver shatters Ezra’s knee, his athletic career, and his social life.


Code Name Verityby Elizabeth Wein

When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare.

Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.


DJ Risingby Love Maia

Meet Marley, an unassuming high school junior who breathes in music like oxygen.

In between caring for his heroin-addicted mother, and keeping his scholarship at a fancy prep school, he dreams of becoming a professional DJ.


Eleanor and Parkby Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.

Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park.


Escape from Camp 14by Blaine Harden

North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did.


Into the Wild Nerd Yonderby Julie Halpern

When high school sophomore Jessie's long-term best friends transform themselves into punks, Jessie doesn’t know where she belongs. She decides to visit "the wild nerd yonder" and seek true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons.


The Madman’s Daughterby Megan Shepard

Inspired by H. G. Wells' classic The Island of Dr. Moreau.

16-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London and tries not to think about the scandal that ruined her life.

After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father's gruesome experiments. But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true.


A Monster Callsby Patrick Ness, Illustrated by Jim Kay

The monster showed up after midnight.

But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...


Out of the Easyby Ruta Sepetys

It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own.

Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer.


The Raven Boysby Maggie Stiefvater

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.


The Selectionby Kiera Cass

Thirty-six girls are chosen. The Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in the palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.


Seraphinaby Rachel Hartman

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.


The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

by Jennifer E. Smith

17-year-old Hadley missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.


Stolenby Lucy Christopher

“It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him.

This is my story.

A letter from nowhere.”


Swim the Flyby Don Calame

Three adolescent boys with a single goal: see a real live naked girl.

The result? Razor-sharp, rapid-fire, and raunchy, of course. And beyond hilarious.


The Testingby Joelle Charbonneau

The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it.

But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing—their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.


Throne of Glassby Sarah J. Maas

After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.


Unbrokenby Laura Hillenbrand

In May 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.


Wingerby Andrew Smith

Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.



Abraham Lincoln Award Challenge!Do you think you can read four of these Lincoln nominees by March? (How about six of them? or ten? or all 22??)

Read at least 4 and then vote for your favorite to win the Illinois 2015 Abraham Lincoln state award.

Read all 22 to become a Double Deuce! Come to the Library for the list of books and voting

forms. Vote for your favorite title and pick a prize!

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