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A booktalk is NOT a
review or a book "report." A book report tells somebody you read the book, a
booktalk tries to convince the person to read the book. The key to booktalking
is to "sell, don't tell." Thus, a booktalk is more of an advertisement or a
commercial.
A booktalk is a
Performance - you want to "hook" the listeners, to do everything, use
every trick you can think of to make the booktalk fun, exciting, and
suspenseful. The best scenario is that you succeed to the extent that the teens
will want to read at least one of the books to find out how it ends. At worst,
you have hopefully made their day a bit brighter and relieved the monotony of
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