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Abe Reader's Choice Award and the New Trier Illinois Abe Lincoln Libguide!
 

The Abraham Lincoln Award is awarded to one book every year by 9th-12th grade students in Illinois. 

The intent of the Abraham Lincoln Award is to encourage high school students to read for personal pleasure.  In order to qualify to vote, students must read four or more books on the Abe list.

Please explore the tabs at the top of this website in order to find book summaries, information about the authors, and book trailers for Abe nominees.

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Please feel free to use all or part of this LibGuide if it is useful for your school or institution.  However, if you do end up using this LibGuide we would appreciate hearing from you and being credited on any new versions of the LibGuide.

Thanks!

The New Trier Librarians 

Created by J. Novak with input from L. Straube on 6/25/11.  Updated on 8/28/11 with input from D. Lazar.

**Note: All brief summaries are

courtesy of ISLMA.

After  --  Amy Efaw    (Speak 2010)

Beastly --  Alex Flinn   (HarperTeen  2008)

Before I Die  --  Jenny Downham    (David Fickling 2009 )

Carter Finally Gets It  --  Brent Crawford   (Hyperion 2010 )

Columbine --  Dave Cullen    (Twelve  2010 )

The Compound  --  S.A. Bodeen    (Square Fish  2009 )

Flash Burnout  --  L.K. Madigan    ( Harcourt  2010 )

Ghosts of War  --  Ryan Smithson    (Harpercollins  2010 )

Going Bovine  --  Libba Bray      (Random House  2010 )

How to Build a House  --  Dana Reinhardt     (Wendy Lamb  2009 )

If I Stay  --  Gayle Forman      ( Speak  2010 )

The Looking Glass Wars  --  Frank Beddor   ( Speak  2007 )

Love is the Higher Law  --  David Levithan   ( Knopf   2010 )

The Maze Runner  --  James Dashner        ( Delacorte  2010 )

Mexican White Boy  --  Matt de la Pena     (Delacorte  2010 )

Reality Check  --  Peter Abrahams      ( HarperTeen  2010 )

Shiver  --  Maggie Stiefvater     (Scholastic  2010 )

Story of a Girl  --  Sara Zarr      ( Little, Brown  2008 )

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines  --  Nic Sheff          ( Atheneum  2008 )

Why I Fight  --  J. Adams Oaks        (Atheneum  2010 )

Wish You Were Dead  --  Todd Strasser        ( EgmontUSA   2010 )

World War Z  --  Max Brooks     (Three Rivers  2007)

The 2011 Abe Lincoln winner was:

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 
See the official Hunger Games website 

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