The Lincoln Award is given to the book from that year’s master list that earns the highest number of student votes.
For a book to reach the master list, adult and young adult fiction and nonfiction titles must be nominated by teachers or librarians and vetted by the nominations committee. While the popularity of a particular title is important, the overall quality of the work is of primary importance. Each year, a panel of high school librarians, teachers, public librarians, and students determines the final master list of twenty titles.
Registered schools promote these books, and students who have read four or more titles are eligible to vote. See the calendar for the award timeline and register today!
This program encourages teens to read for pleasure and to become lifelong readers. Named after former President Abraham Lincoln, an avid reader, and noted author, the Lincoln Award is sponsored by AISLE and administered by the steering committee.
Copies of all books are available for check out at both South and Central Campus libraries as well as on our sora app
Tracking- For each 2024 Lincoln Book you read fill out a review slip, available in the library.
Ebooks/audiobooks count
Summer/last year reading counts
PRIZES
Read a book - get entered into the monthly gift card drawing (8/30)
Read 4- Eligible to attend the award voting party in March.
Read 10- Free hardcover book of your choice.
Read all 20- Enter the Library Hall of Fame.
Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir
This Graphic Novelfollows the real-life Bishop O'Dowd Dragons, an Oakland high school basketball team, in its quest to win the California state championship
Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on a scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry.
Dee wakes up on Alcatraz 2.0 after being convicted of murdering her stepsister. It's clear from the start she says she's innocent and needs to figure out what's going on. Dee has to act fast, because Alcatraz 2.0 is a reality show filled with convicted murderers
Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people
Huda F. is starting high school in a new town and needs to figure out where she fits in
When nonbeliever Michael transfers to a Catholic school in eleventh grade, he quickly connects with a secret support group intent on exposing the school's hypocrisies one stunt at a time.
Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
Ryland Grace awakens on a spaceship without knowing how he got there or if he is even an astronaut. Through a series of flashbacks, memory jolts, and brilliant reasoning, he figures out that there is more at stake than potatoes or his own life. In fact, it is he who must save Earth
A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
Best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker share a love of theater and crushes on the same guys, but when one of their long-distance crushes shows up at their school, real feelings might end their friendship
After a fatal car accident that reveals Emory's brother Joey's opioid addiction, Emory struggles to help him on his road to recovery and make herself heard in a town that insists on not listening
This is the vibrant story of four children raised by Nanny, their fiercely devoted grandmother. The boys hold one another close through early brushes with racism, memorable experiences at the family barbershop, and first loves and losses. And with Nanny at their center, they are never broken.
Standing in opposition to a class assignment to debate Hitler's Final Solution, seniors Cade and Logan become embroiled in turmoil involving their teacher, principal, Commissioner of Education, white supremacists, and their entire community
When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel
Sixteen-year-olds Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices.
Mia is officially a Troubled Teen. But she doesn't realize how out of control her parents think she is until they send her away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic boarding school in rural Minnesota
When her classmates discover her biracial identity, Maddy, a white-passing senior, becomes the target of their bullying and discovers she possesses secret powers that pose a risk to all who wronged her
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country
Thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought.