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What is the spine?
This is the part of a book where you would find the call number.
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What is Fairy Tale?
This genre includes stories such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Little Mermaid.
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What is mystery?
This genre involves a crime and usually has clues.
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What is the hook?
This is the part of the booktalk that grabs your listener's attention at the beginning.
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What is the author's last name?
The second part of the call number is the first three letters of this in every section EXCEPT biography
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What is mythology?
One of the best known movie examples of this genre is Disney's Hercules. In books, Rick Riordan is known for this genre.
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What is autobiography?
This genre is the story of someone's life that he wrote himself.
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What is it tells you what the book is about?
A booktalk wouldn't be complete without a summary of the book, which does this.
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What is the section the book is found in?
The first part of the call number always tells you this.
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What is Science Fiction?
This genre has technology that doesn't exist or explains the impossible with science that doesn't exist.
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What is historical fiction?
This genre is set in the past. WAY in the past. (And it's characters are made up, but the events are usually real.)
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What are movie previews?
When talking about booktalks, I compared them to this thing you have all seen.
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What is the nonfiction section?
Most of the call numbers in the library start with letters instead of numbers. This section is the only one that starts with numbers.
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What is
This genre is characterized by magic, talking animals and impossible things happening. (HINT: folk tales and fairy tales are types of this.)
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What is a fable?
This genre was mostly written by Aesop and is made up of short stories with animal characters and a moral at the end.
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What are the title and the author?
A booktalk needs to give these two important pieces of information so the listener can find the book.
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What is GN (F) JAM?
This would be the call number for the graphic novel "Roller Girl" by Victoria Jamieson.
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What is dystopian?
This genre takes place in a future world where things have gone horribly wrong.
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What is informational text/nonfiction?
This genre gives us information and doesn't have to be read in order.
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What is a recommendation/fans of statement?
This is what a booktalk often ends with, and it helps the listener compare the book to something else.
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