2016 Abraham Lincoln Award Illinois’ High School Readers’ Choice Award Author Saenz, Benjamin Alire Title Publisher Year Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Simon & Schuster 2012 Sepetys, Ruta Between Shades of Gray Philomel 2011 Quick, Matthew Boy 21 Little, Brown 2012 Lange, Erin Jade Butter Bloomsbury 2012 Hodge, Rosamund Cruel Beauty Balzar & Bray 2014 Bracken, Alexandra The Darkest Minds* Hyperion 2012 Rowell, Rainbow Fangirl St. Martin's Press 2013 Kwok, Jean Girl in Translation* Riverhead Books 2010 Zadoff, Allen I Am the Weapon (previously published as Boy Nobody) Little Brown 2013 Nelson, Jandy I'll Give You the Sun Dial 2014 Farizan, Sara If You Could be Mine* Algonquin 2013 Anderson, Laurie Halse The Impossible Knife of Memory Viking 2014 Ballard, Chris One Shot at Forever Hyperion 2012 Kline, Christina Baker Orphan Train Large Print Press 2013 Rawl, Paige Positive: A Memoir HarperCollins 2014 Maberry, Jonathan Rot & Ruin Simon & Schuster 2010 McGovern, Cammie Say What You Will Harper Teen 2014 Sanderson, Brandon Steelheart Delacorte 2013 Sales, Leila This Song Will Save Your Life* 2013 Lockhart, E. We Were Liars Farrar Straus Giroux Delacorte * Denotes chosen by Student Reader Panel 2014