With the celebration of the 2018 ILLINOIS READS initiative a matter of months away, the Illinois Reading Council and ILLINOIS READS Honorary Chairman, Secretary of State, and State Librarian Jesse White, have announced the book titles for 2018.
A statewide project promoting reading for Illinois citizens, ILLINOIS READS annually selects six books in each of six different age categories ranging from read-to books for infants to adult readers. A variety of topics and themes are chosen for each age group, with an emphasis on selections written by authors with ties to Illinois.
The ILLINOIS READS book selections for 2018 are:
Ages Birth – 4 Years
Cat Knit, Jacob Grant
Go-Go Gorillas, Julia Durango
Feathers and Hair, What Animals Wear, Jennifer Ward
Raisin, the Littlest Cow, Miriam Bush and Larry Day (illustrator)
Baby Loves Thermodynamics!, Ruth Spiro
Aberdeen, Stacey Previn
Grades K-2
The Popcorn Astronauts: And Other Biteable Rhymes, Deborah Ruddell
When Penny Met POTUS, Rachel Ruiz
Everybody Sleeps (But not Fred), Josh Schneider
Creepy Pair of Underwear, Aaron Reynolds
The Skin You Live In, Michael Tyler and David Lee Csicsko (illustrator)
The Golden Rule, Ilene Cooper
Grades 3-5
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor, Robert Burleigh
Penelope March is Melting, Jeffrey Michael Ruby
Red, Liesl Shurtliff
Margaret and the Moon, Lucy Knisley (illustrator)
Fresh Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers’ Market, Michelle Schaub
The Matchstick Castle, Keir Graff
Grades 6-8
Ethan Marcus Stands Up, Michele Weber Hurwitz
YORK: The Shadow Cipher, Laura Ruby
Edgeland, Peter Kujawinski
The Thing About Luck, Cynthia Kadohata
The Harlem Charade, Natasha Tarpley
Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home, Sally M. Walker
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Grades 9-12
Gracefully Grayson, Ami Polonsky
Dividing Eden, Joelle Charbonneau
Say No to the Bro, Kat Helgeson
Other Broken Things, C. Desir
Flip the Bird, Kym Brunner
The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams, Michael Tackett
Adult
The Mirror Thief, Martin Seay
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, Kathleen Rooney
The Chicago Way, Michael Harvey
Sisi: Empress on Her Own, Allison Pataki
Church of Marvels, Leslie Parry
Dirt is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child’s Developing Immune System, Jack Gilbert, PhD
Booklists for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 can be found on the ILLINOIS READS’ web site: www.illinoisreads.org
The Southern ILLINOIS READS Book Festival will be a celebration of the 2018 ILLINOIS READS campaign. Readers from all over the state of Illinois are invited to this free event in DuQuoin at the DuQuoin High School on Saturday, March 10.
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