Reading Suggestions
Read for a Lifetime List
Sponsored by Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Librarian, and the Illinois Center for the Book.
Abraham Lincoln Award: Illinois Grades 9-12 Choice Award
The Lincoln Award is given to the book from that year’s master list that earns the highest number of student votes. Each year, a panel of high school librarians, teachers, public librarians and students determines the final master list of twenty titles.
The Printz Award
The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year. In addition, the Printz Committee names up to four honor books, which also represent the best writing in young adult literature.
YALSA Teens’ Top Ten
The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country.