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Top Ten Ways To Get Into The Nerdy Book Club
The following list is what happens when numerous members of the Nerdy Book Club gather in a sleep-deprived state at a national conference and start talking!
Please note: This is tongue-in-cheek humor. Laugh a little – it’s good for you!
10. You have a lexile of at least 1600.
9. You have scored at least 25 AR points with 85% accuracy.
8. At least 50% of the reading you do during the day is nonfiction.
7. You scored 100% on the state standardized test.
6. You have completed a reading log in the last month which was signed by your parents or significant other.
5. You don’t believe graphic novels are “real reading.”
4. Your home décor includes the diorama you made of the last book you read.
3. You spend 6 weeks reading a book and complete a chapter summary for every
chapter.
2. You have never abandoned a book.
1. You choose ALL of your reading from the state required reading list.
If you didn’t answer yes to all of these, here are a few extra credit points you can earn!
a. You think the Newbery is a smoothie at McDonald’s.
b. You’ve earned enough reading bucks/points to buy a pencil at the student store.
c. You don’t own a single picture, middle grade or YA book.
Welcome to the Club! Now, go forth and….READ!!!!
Teresa Bunner is merely the messenger who collected the hilarious conversation her Nerdy Friends had at NCTE in Las Vegas.( It is also widely rumored she is responsible for numerous other shenanigans.) If you weren’t there, we really hope we will see you in Boston next year! And if not there, we always have the blog! Happy reading!
Nerdy Book Club 
Let’s see — check, check, check … uh oh … check, check … dagnabit … check .. OK, I am in!
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Hurray,Kevin!!!! Welcome 🙂
Oh great, another club I can’t join…I’ll keep working on my lexile level this year by reading lots of the wonderful AR choices and maybe next year?
Gillis- Shhhh…this a secret. Don’t tell anyone else, okay?! If you READ anything, you are in the club! Now don’t go spreading that around. We only tell people like you we really want in the club. LOL!
How’s this for street cred: My nickname in middle school was Bookworm.
So, may I run for club treasurer? Or secretary? (I have to many books to read to try for any other office.) I’m proud to be a member of any club that will have Teresa!
NOOOO!!!!
“too” not “to”
I’ll pay big bucks if you edit that for me!
Ha ha, Marjorie! You should hang this in your classroom. : )
You are so in, Bookworm!!! Welcome! 🙂 PS- we all make mistakes!
Finally a club where I fit in!! Love my nerdy friends!
And we are darn glad to have ya!
This list is a riot. Yep, I laughed as much as I read it as when it was created. Thank goodness the only criteria is that we read. 🙂
Good times, friend! First #bookhell #bookheaven at All Write and now this. Whatever will we think of next?!
I’m so glad to be a part of this group, precisely for posts like this. Hopefully all strangers stumbling across this recognize our humour!
So glad you were a part of the creation of this and so glad I got to meet you F2F. Thanks for the laughs!!!
When I was a child, I was determined to read all of the books listed in the children’s book section in Compton’s Encyclopedia. I also made a library of the books in our house. Each book had its own card. Yes I am a children’s librarian! AND a member of the Nerdy Book Club!
I need you to come to my house! My husband would be thrilled if someone organized the “library” that has overtaken our house! So glad to be in the club with people like you!
Yes! I just spent the morning dusting off my dioramas.
Great post. You made me laugh, for sure. 🙂
Oooooo…..next we should have a photo blog of everyone’s dioramas! Glad we could bring a smile to your day!
Phew. I opened up this post and saw Number 2: You have never abandoned a book and thought, “Oh no! I’m out!” That was my not careful reading and my guilt taking over as just yesterday I did abandon a book and I’m feeling guilty for not being loyal to an author I typically love. Then I read this list a little more carefully and realized that my commitment to having a book in my hand that I love at every moment is what makes me a proud and true member of the best club out there: The Nerdy Book Club! Thanks for a fun post (even if my heart did skip a little beat for a moment . . . )
This sounds like a great post for our “reading lives” segment! I, too, have abandoned books and been wracked by guilt. Share your experience with us. We’d love to hear it!
Wow, and here I am a teacher, telling my 3rd graders to stop a book if they give it an honest try and still don’t like it. My words exactly: Life is too short and there are too many awesome books to spend time reading books you can’t get into. Tell me if you don’t like a book and we’ll talk about why.
I feel no guilt for stopping a book. I strongly believe we all need to get better at choosing our decisions and make them wisely.
I LOVE is blog and this group. Thanks for sharing!
Sounds like a fun group! Apparently, not EVERYTHING that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! (And thank goodness; have loved all the tweets, blog posts, recaps, etc.)
Does it count if you have a stack of books at school waiting to be read, a stack on your bedside table TBR, and a stack in your book bag TBR?
Yes, it counts! Maybe that’s our “real” top 10 post, all the delightful things in our lives that make us part of this club! And, yes, we let some things leave Vegas. Others, well, um, you had to be there 🙂
Maybe next time; would love to join you all in Boston!
Love this. May I pass it along to my state board of education? 🙂
(Nah, they wouldn’t get it.)
Yes, please do! But of course, you’ll need to develop a multiple choice test so you can assess their comprehension 🙂
Ha! This is hilarious! Well done, Marjorie!! Yours in nerdiness, Lynda
Thanks! Always glad to have another nerd join our club!!! Nerdy Book people, rock!
Boy am I in trouble. I don’t think I answered yes to any of those questions. Can I join the club anyway. I am a volunteer reader tonight for the Festival of Trees. Will that make me nerdy enough?
Yep, we ALL abandon books. Too many to read. That’s why it made our list (which is really a non-list! :-))
Ooops, this comment was supposed to be address to D. Lee
Glenda- Shhh…don’t tell. You’re already in the club:-)
I am a SUPER NERD, but I do abandon books. There are so many to be read – I can’t waste time on those that make me go “meh”. A hilarious list nonetheless!
I wish I had connected with the Nerdy Book Club in Vegas. I heard your party was a blast!
Boston, next year? It’s a date?!
How about if you have purchased a book on your Kindle, then bought a hard copy or copies (as is too often for me) because you really wanted to share it with students, and then bought the audio because you heard someone say that the audio was terrific? I think that should be good for some extra credit points.
Oh, I don’t know. Was the book within your lexile level?!?!? 🙂
The Nerdy Book Club is making a great impression!
That’s our goal, Bill. We’re all about impressions. Oh, and reading! 🙂