Illinois in Symbols
Fun and Simple Great Lakes State Crafts by June Ponte, Ages 8-12
Illinois (From Sea to Shining Sea) by Barbara A. Somervill, Ages 8-12
Illinois (This Land Called America) by Shawndra Shofner, Ages 9-13
Illinois Plants and Animals by Andrew Santella, Ages 9-12
Pizza Pie in the Sky: A Story about Illinois by Karen Latchana Kenney, Ages 4-8

Illinois Wildlife
Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself by Rachel Dickinson, Ages 9-13
If You’re Not from the Prairie by David Bouchard, Ages 4-8
Our World: Prairies by Aaron Frisch, Ages 5-9
A Prairie Alphabet by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet, Ages 6-8
The Prairie Girl’s Guide to Life by Jennifer Worick, Ages 13 and up

Freedom/Slavery/Civil War
The Civil War A to Z by Norman Bolotin, Ages 9-12
The Civil War for Kids by Janis Herbert, Ages 8-12
Clara Barton: Face Danger but Never Fear It by Don Nardo, Ages 9-13
Days of Jubilee by Patricia C. McKissack, Ages 9-13
Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James M. McPherson, Ages 9-13
Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson, Ages 10 and up
I’ll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War By Anita Silvey, Ages 10 and up
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick, Ages 9-12
Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War by Thomas B. Allen, Ages 10 and up
My Vicksburg by Ann Rinaldi, Ages 10 and up
Outrageous Women of the Civil War by Mary Rodd Furbee, Ages 8-10
Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War by Jennifer Armstrong, Ages 12 and up
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco, Ages 8-12
Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells, Ages 12 and up
A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War by Ina Chang, Ages 9-13
Traveling the Freedom Road by Mary Rodd Furbee, Ages 10 and up
Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein, Ages 10-13
Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You about the Civil War by Steve Sheinkin, Ages 9-13
The Underground Railroad for Kids by Mary Kay Carson, Ages 8-12
Yankee Blue or Rebel Gray?: The Civil War Adventures of Sam Shaw by Kate Connell, Ages 8-12

Life of Abraham Lincoln
200 Years with Abraham Lincoln by Helen Koutras Bozonelis, Ages 8-12
Abe Lincoln Loved Animals by Ellen B. Jackson, Ages 5-8
Abe’s Honest Words by Doreen Rappaport, Ages 4-8
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman, Ages 8 and up
Lincoln and His Boys by Rosemary Wells, Ages 9-12
Lincoln Through the Lens by Martin W. Sandler, Ages 9 and up
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming, Ages 10 and up
Mr. Lincoln’s Boys by Staton Rabin, Ages 5-9
My Brother Abe: Sally Lincoln’s Story by Harry Mazer, Ages 9-12
Our Abe Lincoln by Barbara McClintock, Ages 4-8
Voyages: Reminiscences of Young Abe Lincoln by Neil Waldman, Ages 10 and up
What Lincoln Said by Sarah L. Thomson, Ages 6-9
Where Lincoln Walked by Raymond Bial, Ages 8-12
Young Abe Lincoln by Cheryl Harness, Ages 6-9

Lincoln as President
Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington by Cheryl Harness, Ages 9-12
Abraham Lincoln: Our Sixteenth President by Sarah Hansen, Ages 9-13
Abraham Lincoln Comes Home by Robert Burleigh, Ages 7-9
Assassin by Anna Myers, Ages 12 and up
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson, Ages 12 and up
Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel by C. M. Butzer, Ages 10-13
Good Brother, Bad Brother by James Cross Giblin, Ages 10-13
Lincoln Shot: A President’s Life Remembered by Barry Denenberg, Ages 9 and up
The Murder of Abraham Lincoln by Rick Geary, Ages 12 and up
Picturing Lincoln by George Sullivan, Ages 10-13

Lincoln’s Love of Books
Aesop’s Fables retold by John Cech, Ages 4-8
Aesop’s Fables by Saviour Pirotta, Ages 7-9
Arabian Nights retold by Martin Woodside, Ages 7-9
Frankenstein retold by Deanna McFadden, Ages 9-12
The Hunchback of Notre Dame retold by Deanna McFadden, Ages 7-9
Lincoln in His Own Words by Milton Meltzer, Ages 12 and up
Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe edited by Brod Bagert, Ages 9-13
Poetry for Young People: Walt Whitman edited by Jonathan Levin, Ages 8-12
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ages 12 and up

The Long and Short of It
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale by Deborah Hopkinson, Ages 6-9
Abe’s Fish: A Boyhood Tale of Abraham Lincoln by Jen Bryant, Ages 4-8
I Hear America Singing!: Folksongs for American Families by Kathleen Krull, Ages 9-12
Robinson Crusoe retold by Deanna McFadden, Ages 9-12
The Seer of Shadows by Avi, Ages 8-12
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, Ages 9-12
Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare edited by David Scott Kasten, Ages 9 and up

Times of Abraham Lincoln
Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier’s Life in the Civil War by Delia Ray, Ages 9-12
Billy Yank and Johnny Reb: Soldiering in the Civil War by Susan Provost Beller, Ages 12 and up
The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War by Jim Murphy, Ages 8-12
Charles Darwin by Alan Gibbons, Ages 7-10
Ghost Soldier by Elaine Marie Alphin, Ages 10-13
Hear the Wind Blow by Mary Downing Hahn, Ages 10-13
The Lincoln Memorial (American Symbols) by Mary Firestone, Ages 5-8
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Lynda Jones, Ages 10-13
Nevermore: A Photobiography of Edgar Allan Poe by Karen Lange, Ages 10-13
A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass by David A. Adler, Ages 6-9