Take a look at the 2010 nominees for the Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award. 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 named for Abraham Lincoln, one of Illinois' most famous residents and himself an avid reader and noted author. The nominees for 2010 are:
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Aftershock by Kelly Easton
Avalon High by Meg Cabot
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery by Alane Ferguson
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger’s by John Elder Robison
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Pride of Baghdad by Brian Vaughan
Rooftop by Paul Volponi
Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
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Although John Green's Abundance of Katherines was a cute read, I have to express my disappointment that Looking for Alaska has never made the cut. I found it more lacking in stock characters. Sad face.
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