2015
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois High School
Book Award
Nominees
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The 5th Wave
by 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.
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Anna Dressed in Blood
by 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.
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Ask the Passengers
by 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.
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The Beginning of Everything
by 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.
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Code Name Verity
by 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.
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DJ Rising
by 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.
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Eleanor and Park
by 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.
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Escape from Camp 14
by 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.
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Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
by Julie Halpern
When high school
sophomore Jessie's longterm 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.
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The Madman’s Daughter
by 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.
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A Monster Calls
by 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...
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Out of the Easy
by 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.
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The Raven Boys
by 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.
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The Selection
by 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.
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Seraphina
by 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.
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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.
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Stolen
by 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.”
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Swim the Fly
by Don Calame
Three adolescent boys with a
single goal:
see a real live naked girl.
The result? Razor-sharp, rapidfire, and raunchy, of course.
And beyond hilarious.
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The Testing
by 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.
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Throne of Glass
by Sarah J. Maas
After serving out a year of hard
labor in the salt mines of
Endovier for her crimes, 18year-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.
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Unbroken
by 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.
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Winger
by Andrew Smith
Ryan Dean West is a fourteenyear-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.
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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!
High School - Abraham Lincoln Award Nominees