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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Jessica (36 Lists)



I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdyWe Deserve Monuments by Jas HammondsSkyhunter by Marie LuVictory. Stand! by Tommie SmithThe Getaway by Lamar Giles
2025 Abraham Lincoln Nominees
20 books — 7 voters
In the Wild Light by Jeff ZentnerDragon Hoops by Gene Luen YangThe Assignment by Liza M. WiemerAll My Rage by Sabaa TahirThe Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe
IL 2024 Abe Lincoln Award Master List
20 books — 4 voters

Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate O'ShaughnessyA Kind of Spark by Elle McNicollThe Lost Year by Katherine MarshStarfish by Lisa FippsThe Fort by Gordon Korman
2025 Rebecca Caudill Nominees
20 books — 4 voters
Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year by Nina HamzaMy Life in the Fish Tank by Barbara DeeFrankie & Bug by Gayle FormanMaizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa YeeThe Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
2024 Caudill Award Nominees
20 books — 3 voters

How to Find a Fox by Kate GardnerAmy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat ZhangAvocado Asks by Momoko AbeCapybara Is Friends with Everyone by Maddie FrostArgh! There's a Skeleton Inside You! by Idan Ben-Barak
2024 Monarch Award Nominees
20 books — 3 voters
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar GilesWe Are Not Free by Traci CheeFirekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline BoulleyTokyo Ever After by Emiko JeanLast Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
2023 Abraham Lincoln Nominees
21 books — 4 voters

Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by Joanna HoLift by Minh LêDoggo and Pupper by Katherine Applegate
2023 Monarch Award Nominees
20 books — 3 voters
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. AlstonAll Thirteen by Christina SoontornvatFighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyA High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil BildnerBlack Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
2023 Rebecca Caudill Nominees
20 books — 8 voters

Hair Love by Matthew A. CherryFry Bread by Kevin Noble MaillardPride by Rob SandersMia Mayhem Is a Superhero! by Kara West
2022 Monarch Award Nominees
20 books — 5 voters
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue ParkFramed! by James PontiOther Words for Home by Jasmine WargaLet the Children March by Monica Clark-RobinsonThe Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser
2022 Bluestem Award Nominees
20 books — 2 voters

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring BlakeFrankly in Love by David YoonStamped by Jason ReynoldsAllegedly by Tiffany D. JacksonIf I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
2022 Abraham Lincoln Nominees
20 books — 4 voters
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. WilliamsMaybe He Just Likes You by Barbara DeeThe Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan GemeinhartThey Called Us Enemy by George TakeiThe Line Tender by Kate Allen
2022 Rebecca Caudill Nominees
20 books — 5 voters

Front Desk by Kelly YangNew Kid by Jerry CraftNowhere Boy by Katherine MarshThe Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnultyLong Way Down by Jason Reynolds
2021 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award Illinois Children's Choice Award
20 books — 3 voters
Front Desk by Kelly YangNew Kid by Jerry CraftNowhere Boy by Katherine MarshLong Way Down by Jason ReynoldsThe Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
2021 Rebecca Caudill Nominees
24 books — 12 voters

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh MafiPatron Saints of Nothing by Randy RibayDry by Neal ShustermanAll the Crooked Saints by Maggie StiefvaterThey Called Us Enemy by George Takei
2021 Abraham Lincoln Nominees
20 books — 2 voters
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti BowlingHer Right Foot by Dave EggersThe Great Treehouse War by Lisa GraffDazzle Ships by Chris BartonGrace Hopper by Laurie Wallmark
2020 Bluestem Award Nominees
20 books — 4 voters

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline WoodsonHer Right Foot by Dave EggersThe Little Red Fort by Brenda MaierJoan Procter, Dragon Doctor by Patricia ValdezMalala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
2020 Monarch Award Nominees
20 books — 2 voters
Roller Girl by Victoria JamiesonBook Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman11 Birthdays by Wendy MassFuzzy Mud by Louis SacharThe Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Winick
2018 Bluestem Award Master List
20 books — 4 voters

Rump by Liesl ShurtliffCounting by 7s by Holly Goldberg SloanCamo Girl by Kekla MagoonCinder by Marissa Meyer
2016 Rebecca Caudill Nominees
20 books — 7 voters
Every Day by David LevithanRoom by Emma DonoghueThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternLegend by Marie LuThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Readers' Choice Award Nominees 2014
22 books — 4 voters

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliThe Naturals by Jennifer Lynn BarnesGabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel QuinteroAll the Bright Places by Jennifer NivenChallenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
2017 Abraham Lincoln Award Master Lis
20 books — 6 voters
Columbine by Dave CullenIf I Stay by Gayle FormanShiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Abe Lincoln list 2012
22 books — 6 voters

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellThe Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. SmithStolen by Lucy ChristopherThe Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Abraham Lincoln Award Nominees 2015
22 books — 12 voters
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherThe Help by Kathryn StockettAnna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldMatched by Ally Condie
Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Readers' Choice Award Nominees 2013
23 books — 18 voters

The Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoThe 57 Bus by Dashka SlaterFar from the Tree by Robin BenwayDear Martin by Nic Stone
2020 Abraham Lincoln Nominees
20 books — 4 voters
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie ConnorWild Bird by Wendelin Van DraanenRefugee by Alan GratzThe Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen WangRestart by Gordon Korman
2020 Rebecca Caudill Nominees
20 books — 13 voters

All We Have Left by Wendy MillsGoodbye Days by Jeff ZentnerOne of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManusThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasScythe by Neal Shusterman
Abe Lincoln 2019
20 books — 8 voters
All American Boys by Jason ReynoldsEverything, Everything by Nicola YoonStella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Patience is the Mother of a Beautiful Child: Incoming Middle Grade & Young Adult Books Written by Black Authors for 2015
37 books — 34 voters

Ms. Bixby's Last Day by John David AndersonBetter Nate Than Ever by Tim FederlePaper Things by Jennifer Richard JacobsonIt Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh DumasMe and Marvin Gardens by Amy Sarig King
2019 Rebecca Caudill Nominees
20 books — 15 voters
The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
At the bottom of patience is heaven: Incoming Middle Grade & Young Adult Books Written by Black Authors for 2017
42 books — 45 voters


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