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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.
Would you want to help select which books make the list?
Click here and apply to be a student reader!
Ask a librarian if you have any questions!
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
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
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