Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Winners
2005-2006
About the Abe Award:
- To be able to vote in February of 2007, you must be in grades 9 to 12
during the school year. You must also read (or listen to the audio
recording) at least 4 of the 22 titles on this year’s list to be eligible
to vote.
- Do you want to be part of the nomination process? Give titles to Leisl,
the Young Adult Librarian (ljaberg@jolietlibrary.org).
First Place Winner - 2006
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult http://www.jodipicoult.com/
Teen Fiction Picoult
Imagine that you were conceived to be the donor of bone marrow
and platelets for your older sister, who has a rare form of
cancer. Imagine what it would be like to grow up in a family
where everyone is constantly aware of one child's deadly
illness, so that all decisions must be filtered through what
will work for her treatment or her most recent medical
emergency. How can a 13-year-old decide against donating a
kidney to her older sister?
Second Place Winner - 2006
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Teen Fiction Hosseini
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a
servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of
Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present
day.
Third Place Winner - 2006 The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
by Carolyn Mackler
http://www.carolynmackler.com/
Teen Fiction MAC
Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves is
sure that she's the weakest link in her
high-powered family until her handsome, athletic, star-student
brother
shockingly falls from grace.
First Place Winner - 2005 A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
Second Place Winner - 2005 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Third
Place Winner - 2005 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
