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Hoffman Estates High School1Shadow and Bone

By Leigh BardugoShadow and BoneOrphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protege of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

3Ahses

By Ilsa J. BickAshesAlex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, along with Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

4Hate List

By Jennifer BrownHate ListShe doesn't have the answers for why her boyfriend chose a May morning to kill six classmates and wound several others, but Valerie Leftman is one of the only people who can still remember the good in Nick Levil. As she builds her post-Nick identity during her senior year, Valerie forms an unlikely friendship with one of the shooting victims, explores art therapy and watches her family structure dissolve.

5Ready Player One

By Ernest ClineImmersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.Ready Player One

6Room

By Emma DonoghueRoomA five-year-old narrates a story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who kidnapped her when she was a teenager and has held her prisoner for seven years.

7The Fault in our Stars

By John GreenThe Fault in our Stars Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

8Stupid Fast

By Geoff HerbachStupid Fast Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.

9Five Flavors of Dumb

By Antony JohnEighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along. Plus, Piper is deaf!Five Flavors of Dumb

10Everybody Sees the Ants

By A.S. KingOverburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective. Everybody sees the Ants

11every day

By David LevithanEvery morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.Every Day

12Legend

By Marie LuIn a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.Legend

13I Hunt Killers

By Barry LygaSeventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."I Hunt Killers

14Purple Heart

By Patricia McCormickWhile recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.Purple Heart

15Cinder

By Marissa MeyerAs plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take onthe Cinderella story.Cinder

16The Night Circus

By Erin MorgensternA fierce competition is underway, a contest between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood to compete in "a game," in which each must use their powers of illusion to best the other. Unbeknownst to them, this game is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. The Night CircusChe

17Across the Universe

By Beth RevisTeenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her.Across the Universe

18The Pregnancy Project

By Gaby RodriguezRodriguez shares her experience growing up in the shadow of low expectations, reveals how she was able to fake her own pregnancy, and tells all that she learned from the experience.The Pregnancy Project

19Divergent

By Veronica RothIn a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anamoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.Divergent

20Marcelo in the Real World

By Francisco X. StorkMarcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.Marcelo in the Real World

21Daughter of Smoke and Bone

By Laini TaylorSeventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.Daughter of Smoke and Bone

22how to save a life

By Sara ZarrTold from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.How to save a life

23The Abraham Lincoln Book List is: selected by Illinois students in grades 9-12. named for one of Illinois' most famous residents who was an avid reader and noted author. sponsored by the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA). designed to encourage high school students to read for personal satisfaction and become familiar with authors of young adult and adult books. Click to access the HEHS online catalog. After youve read a book, submit an online review. You will be entered into our drawing to win a sweet treat, and well notify your English teacher who may give you extra credit! Thanks for participating in the Lincoln Book List Reading Program!