Illinois State Reading Lists
Award Lists
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Reader's Choice Master List
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers Choice Award Master List
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers Choice Award Masterlist
2019 Illinois Reads List
Kitten and the Night Watchman
Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Margaret Wise Brown Prize Five starred reviews! Selected as a Best Book of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Ki...
2020 Illinois Reads List
The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street
A girl unravels a centuries-old mystery after moving into a haunted house in this deliciously suspenseful mystery.Tessa Woodward isn’t exactly thri...
Cape
“Readers…will be enamored by this blend of history, mystery, and superpowered action.” —Booklist (starred review) “Has the exciting pace of a super...
All That I Can Fix
“A superbly entertaining read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Will win over teens.” —School Library Journal (starred review) A teen boy’s world...
2020 Bluestem Book Award Master List
Between the Lines
How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery
“A visually striking, enlightening picture-book biography.” —Booklist (starred review) “An absolutely indispensable illustrated biography.” —School...
2021 Bluestem Book Award Master List
Lifeboat 12
“This page-turning true-life adventure is filled with rich and riveting details and a timeless understanding of the things that matter most.”—Dashk...
Power Forward
From the critically acclaimed author of Amina’s Voice comes the first book in an exciting new middle grade series about a fourth-grader with big dr...
2020 Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers Choice Award Master List
Long Way Down
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is Na...
2021 Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers Choice Award Master List
Obsessed
A Memoir of My Life with OCD
A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder—and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her w...
A Heart in a Body in the World
“This is one for the ages.” —Gayle Forman, author of the #1 bestseller If I Stay “A book everyone should read right now.” —The New York Times Book ...
Price of Duty
From award-winning author Todd Strasser comes a gripping new novel that explores the struggles of war, the price paid by those who fight in them, a...
2021 Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers Choice Award Master List
Dry
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harro...
2021 Rebecca Cauldill Young Readers' Book Award Master List
Long Way Down
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is Na...
The Only Road
PURA BELPRÉ HONOR BOOK ALA NOTABLE BOOK “Powerful and timely.” —Booklist (starred review) “An important, must-have addition to the growing body of ...