Abraham Lincoln Book Award

The Association of Illinois School Library Educators (AISLE) recently released the list of twenty books nominated for the 2021 Abraham Lincoln Award. The complete list includes student selections: Internment by Samira Ahmed, Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney C. Stevens, Dry by Neal Shusterman, and All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater.  If these books are any indication, it’s going to be a great reading competition!

 2020 Abraham Lincoln Book Award Winner

Join Hannah and me as we begin to promote this list of fiction and nonfiction titles and the Abe Award program, which is designed to encourage high school students to read for pleasure and to become lifelong readers.

Visit our digital media library Axis 360 to get a head start on your reading. In the fall, you can check out  books in the Antioch's catalog. Students who read four or more titles from the list  between now and next March can vote for their favorite book.  Students who read all twenty join the ILC Reader Hall of Fame at their respective school.   Students can register for the contest here.

As we start to promote the 2021 list, we also retire the 2020 list. The 2020 Abraham Lincoln Book Award went to They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera.

Let us know if you'd like a copy of the Abe 2021 poster or a colored copy of a flyer for your classroom!

Happy reading!