2009 Illinois High School Book Award List

Explore the 2009 Illinois High School Book Award List featuring top recommended reads for students. Discover award-winning books that captivated young readers across Illinois schools.

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Crank

by Ellen Hopkins

Based on a real-life event and written in verse, this novel relates the disturbing story of one girl's descent into addiction.
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Dairy Queen

 

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The Girls

by Lori Lansens

Rarely has the experience of being a sister been so poignantly and memorably captured as in Lori Lansens's triumphant novel. The Girls celebrates life's fundamental …
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Hawksong

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk’s form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the …
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I Am the Messenger

by Markus Zusak

DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF AND AN UNFORGETTABLE AND SWEEPING FAMILY SAGA. From the author of the …
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Jennifer Government

by Max Barry

In the near future, corporations rule the world and the one who defies them is pursued relentlessly.
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The lightning thief

 

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Looking for Alaska

 

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A Northern Light

by Jennifer Donnelly

Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," this Printz Honor Book effortlessly weaves romance, history, and …
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Peeps

by Scott Westerfeld

A year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying than in attending biology class. Now, after a fateful …
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Sold

by Patricia McCormick

Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that …
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The Tenth Circle

by Jodi Picoult

When the daughter of a comic book artist claims she has been raped at a party and her friends turn against her, she runs away …
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Three Cups of Tea

by Greg Mortenson

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who …
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