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Abraham Lincoln
Illinois High School Book Award 2009
The Abraham Lincoln Award is awarded annually to the
author of the book voted as most outstanding by participating students in grades
nine through twelve in Illinois.
The award is sponsored by the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA).
To learn more, visit the
ISLMA web
site.
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia
Hawksong
In a land that has been at war so long that no one remembers the reason for
fighting, the shapeshifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope
of bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other.
Barry, Max
Jennifer
Government: A Novel
This title is also available as an
audiobook.
In a corporate-governed future world where people take the last names of the
companies they work for, merchandising officer Hack Nike tries to get out of a
contract that requires him to shoot teenagers, a situation that results in his
unwitting involvement with an agent who is out to get Hack's employer.
Bennett, Holly
The Bonemender
Gabrielle DesChenes, gifted Healer and one of the royal family of Verdeau, finds
herself falling in love with Feolan, an Elf who arrives at her castle seeking
help for his wounded friend and who warns of imminent danger from invaders who
threaten the freedom of all who live in the Krylian
Basin.
Chima, Cinda Williams
The Warrior Heir
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers,
sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
Donnelly, Jennifer
A Northern Light
Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer
against the wishes of her father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906
where the death of a guest renews her determination to live her own life.
Giles, Gail
What Happened to
Cass McBride? A Novel
After his younger brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge
on the person he holds responsible.
Green, John
Looking for Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama
includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers
about life and death after a fatal car crash.
Hopkins, Ellen
Crank
Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to
drugs and becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and
her mind.
Jordan, Chris
Taken
This title is also available as an
audiobook.
In a terrible instant, Kate Bickford's young son vanishes. Racing home hoping to
find her son, Kate comes face-to-face with his abductor, who wants all the money
she has. If she doesn't follow something he calls The Method, the consequences
will be gruesome.
Lansens, Lori
The Girls
This title is also available as an
audiobook.
“We’ve been called many things: freaks, horrors, monsters, devils, witches,
retards, wonders, marvels. To most, we’re a curiosity. In small-town Leaford,
where we live and work, we’re just ‘The Girls.’”
Leitch, Will
Catch: A Novel
Teenager Tim Temples must decide if he wants to leave his comfortable life in a
small town and go to college.
Lipsyte, Robert
Raiders Night
Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic
season as he witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples
with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.
McCormick, Patricia
Sold
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that
she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into
the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Mortenson, Greg
Three Cups of Tea:
One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace – One School at a Time
This title is also available as an
audiobook.
Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan in 1993, after a
terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg
Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in
the Karakoram Mountains. This is the story of that promise
and its extraordinary outcome.
Murdock, Catherine
Dairy Queen: A
Novel
This title is also available as an
audiobook.
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback
for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out
for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Oates, Joyce Carol
After the Wreck, I
Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings and Flew Away
Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her
mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional
recovery.
Picoult, Jodi
The Tenth Circle
This title is also available as an
audiobook.
This title is also available in
Large Print.
Trixie Stone is only a freshman in high school when Jason, the junior she thinks
she loves, dumps her. Then one night at a party, their paths cross again. A few
hours later, a visibly shaken Trixie comes home to tell her father that Jason
assaulted her. Daniel Stone has always done everything in his power to keep his
daughter safe. But he never imagined anything so devastating could happen to
Trixie--and now he's not sure how to help her.
Riordan, Rick
The Lightning Thief
This title is also available as an
audiobook.
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the
sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself,
and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Vizzini, Ned
It’s Kind of a
Funny Story
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his
time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
Westerfeld, Scott
Peeps: A Novel
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt
down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
Wiess, Laura
Such a Pretty Girl
Haunted by flashbacks, fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in
prison has not changed the abusive father who molested her.
Zusak, Markus
I Am the Messenger
This title is also available as an
audiobook.
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins
receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need
help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
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