Call Numbers Genre Genre Continued Booktalks
100
What is the spine?
This is the part of a book where you would find the call number.
100
What is Fairy Tale?
This genre includes stories such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Little Mermaid.
100
What is mystery?
This genre involves a crime and usually has clues.
100
What is the hook?
This is the part of the booktalk that grabs your listener's attention at the beginning.
200
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
200
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.
200
What is autobiography?
This genre is the story of someone's life that he wrote himself.
200
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. You CANNOT say "it summarizes".
300
What is the section the book is found in?
The first part of the call number always tells you this.
300
What is Science Fiction?
This genre has technology that doesn't exist or explains the impossible with science that doesn't exist.
300
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.)
300
What are movie previews?
When talking about booktalks, I compared them to this thing you have all seen.
400
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.
400
What is Fantasy
This genre is characterized by magic, talking animals and impossible things happening. (HINT: folk tales and fairy tales are types of this.)
400
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.
400
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 in a library or bookstore.
500
What is GN (F) JAM?
This would be the call number for the graphic novel "Roller Girl" by Victoria Jamieson.
500
What is dystopian?
This genre takes place in a future world where things have gone horribly wrong.
500
What is informational text/nonfiction?
This genre gives us information and doesn't have to be read in order.
500
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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