Abe Lincoln Teen Choice Book Award 2021: Home

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 4 nominated books prior to voting in 2021.

Copies of each book are available in the Lincoln Award area in the library. Look for the books with the Abe Lincoln sticker on the spine.

Voting opens February 15, 2021.

The Winner of the 2020 Teen Choice Award is:

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Would you want to help select which books make the list?
Click here and apply to be a student reader!
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All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi

Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

Devils Within by S. F. Henson

Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney C. Stevens

Dry by Neal Shusterman & Jarrod 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

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, Steven Scott, & Harmony Becker

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson 

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss