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Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Lincoln Award

Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Lincoln Award

WHAT IS THE LINCOLN AWARD?

The Lincoln Award is given each year to the author whose book receives the most votes from high school students in Illinois. It is awarded by the Association of Illinois School Library Educators (AISLE).

HOW CAN I VOTE?

Read a minimum of 5 nominated books and review each using the Google Form prior to voting in March. You'll get a free book of your choice to keep, and get to join our pizza party!

Copies of each book are available in the Library at the Lincoln Award display in the front. Look for the books with the Abe Lincoln sticker on the spine. 

2020 Abe Award Winner

The Winner of the 2019 Teen Choice Award is:

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

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Nominee List

Amazon.com: All the Crooked Saints (9780545930802): Stiefvater ...

All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America: Zoboi ...

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America ed. by Ibi Zoboi

Amazon.com: Darius the Great Is Not Okay (9780525552963): Khorram ... 

Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

 

Devils Within by S.F. Henson

 

Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens

 

Dry by Neal Shusterman

 

Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee

 

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

 

Heroine by Mindy McGinnis

 

Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Nominee List

 

Internment by Samira Ahmed

 

Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD by Allison Britz

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

Price of Duty by Todd Strasser

Slay by Brittney Morris

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott, art by Harmony Becker

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

We'll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss