[ISLMA-Share] Crazy Question

Fri Nov 10 11:25:28 CST 2017

I am loving all these great anecdotes! Perfect for a Friday. My humble contribution is one I get frequently.

Student: I need a book.
Me: What are you in the mood to read?
Student: Something good.
Me: … Great! Are you in the mood for action, adventure, comedy, scary, mystery…?
Student: Anything really. Just a good book. Nothing boring.

I have over 1500 fiction titles plus short stories and graphic novels not to mention 3000 plus non-fiction titles. Most of the time I can figure out what they are after and give them a few great suggestions. But over and over kids just expect I can show them the “good books” section.

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At the last high schooI I was at, I was setting up a display for Banned Books Week when a new teacher came up to me and with pure indignation asked me "What do you mean these books are banned!?"  Ummm....

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A student kept coming in asking for a Minecraft book. It was always checked out. Finally, he got really exasperated.
"Why don't you get more?"
"We don't have the money right now"
"Well, just ask your parents!"

Later, I told this story to my mother, and God bless her, she took out her wallet, handed me a twenty, and said "You get that boy his books!"

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This isn't really a question, but it is one of my all time favorite student statements:

A day after borrow Pride and Prejudice, an 8th grade girl returned the book and said, "I can't read this, it's in English!"

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Me to the Students: “Who can give me a description of an Historical Fiction Book?”
Student: “It’s a Book that is really, really, really funny?”
Me: “No, that would be “hysterical” fiction…”  ☺
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"I want that book where somebody doesn't like somebody"

Do you remember anything else?

"You read it to us"

Processing, scanning my brain--aha!--is it this one? Ballet Cat: The totally secret secret

"Yes!!"

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 "I want the book my sister checked last week"

That one takes many questions and guesses until we find the answer. Another one that I get like it is

"I want the book you talked about that has a red cover on it"

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1st-grade student: "I want to read a nonfiction book about the tooth fairy."

me: (Show her some picture books)

student: "No, I want the true facts and real pictures of the tooth fairy!"

me: "Hmmm..I think those are all checked out right now."

Lol!

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All,

What was your craziest, most random or hardest Reader's Advisory question? And the answer if you found it.

You know like the question: "I read a book with a blue cover that I liked, but I can't remember the title."

I'm collecting for a class.

Thanks for the help.

Gretchen Zaitzeff
Librarian
University High School
Normal, IL
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