State Award Reading List
Illinois State Reading List
2010 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List
Shooting the Moon
By: Frances O'Roark Dowell
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: January 29, 2008
Ages: above 10
JAMIE THINKS HER FATHER CAN DO ANYTHING....UNTIL THE ONE TIME HE CAN DO NOTHING.When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter's brother joins the Army and is sent toVietnam, Jamie is plum thrilled. She can't wait to get letters from...
2010 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Nominees
City of Bones
(Part of Mortal Instruments, The)
By: Cassandra Clare
Cover By: Cliff Nielsen
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 14
Their hidden world is about to be revealed.... When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers...
Aftershock
By: Kelly Easton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publication date: November 6, 2007
Ages: above 12
Seventeen-year-old Adam and his parents are driving home to Rhode Island from a peace rally in Seattle when the accident happens. In a single, horrible moment, his parents are gone. And Adam is alone.In a speechless state of...
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Inexcusable
By: Chris Lynch
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: October 25, 2005
Ages: above 13
"I am a good guy. Good guys don't do bad things. Good guys understand that no means no, and so I could not have done this because I understand."Keir Sarafian knows many things about himself. He is a talented footballplayer, a...
Nineteen Minutes
A novel
By: Jodi Picoult
This edition: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publication date: March 5, 2007
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.Sterling is an ordinary...
2010 Monarch Award Master List
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
By: Lenore Look
Cover By: Anne Wilsdorf / Illustrated by: Anne Wilsdorf
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: April 11, 2006
Ages: 6 - 10
When Ruby's cousin Flying Duck emigrates from China to live with her, Ruby decides the best thing about Flying Duck is that she is a great new friend. BUT the worst thing about Flying Duck is that now, no one speaks English at...
Illinois Winners List
Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award 2009
Crank
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publication date: October 5, 2004
Ages: above 14
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of...
