Each year the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) sponsors the Abraham Lincoln Reader’s Choice Award, in which high school students vote for their favorite book on a list of nominees. The results for the 2014 nominees were announced on Friday, March 21, and The Fault in Our Stars won! The Fault in Our Stars, inspired by the real life story Esther Grace Earl, is available in our young adult collection.
And don’t miss Esther Grace Earl’s, This Star Won‘t Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl, available in our collection as a downloadable eBook.
Coming in a close second was Divergent, by Northwestern graduate and Chicago author Veronica Roth.
2014 Abe Lincoln Award notable mentions:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick. Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
Read On! The 2015 Abe Lincoln Award Nominees
Here are a couple of books on the 2015 Abe Lincoln Award list. To view the entire list of 2015 books, please go to the Illinois School Library Media Association webpage.
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. On a May afternoon in 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--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity, suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Winger by Andrew Smith. Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.
The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd. Dr. Moreau's daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, medical horrors, and a love triangle.
-KF
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