[OYAN] RA help? Reads like South Park

[Keli Yeats]

You could try Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. I find Donner Dinner Party
really easy to sell. My two hooks for that are "the funniest book about the
Donner Party that you'll every read." And I show kids the chart on the
back. It has all the people in the party, whether they died and what they
died of, and whether or not they were eaten. It's that last part that
usually hooks them.

Keli Yeats, Teen Librarian
(prefered pronouns: she, her, hers)

Rockwood Library
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:53 PM K'Lyn Hann <klyn.hann at newbergoregon.gov>
wrote:

> Hello, hive mind,
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> I had a very, very, VERY reluctant reader in today. I spent about 30
> minutes trying to find a hook I could work with.  He will be entering 8th
> grade in the fall and grandpa promised dad he’d get him a book to read. It
> was tense and entirely uncooperative.
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> The only thing that caught his attention was South Park and possible books
> with that kind of humor. I’m drawing an absolute blank. Any suggestions?
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> He left with The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh Of Homer.  He didn’t
> want the Simpsons comic books. He wasn’t interested in the manga I
> recommended. He wasn’t interested in the Darwin Awards.
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> Anything to spark a direction would be great!
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> --K’Lyn
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> Kay Lyn Hann
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>    (pronouns: she/her)
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> Senior Librarian (Teens & Tech)
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> Newberg Public Library
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> 503 E Hancock St, Newberg, OR
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> 503-554-7732
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