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Ongoing Judging Book (Cover, Prereads until Review) : The Nightmare Room Camp Nowhere by R.L. Stine

Before I start, this is my first post about prereading until review, which means this post is an ongoing process that may take months to finish.

We need to align our mutual understanding of "preread". The word "preread" in this context refers to informal resource specifically novels (fiction books for upper primary level of students until elder). From what I've gathered, preread means skimming the whole main points of the book, not the story, could be the title, cover, chapters and allow the reader to predict what kind of story or whether they would take the time to read it or not. The previous definition of preread is a combination of Richard Nordquist's (2019) explanation of what a preread is and my point of view as a reader and how I'm gonna write down the preread of the novel I'm going to talk about in this post. So this is not an academic prereading, one that I must emphasize to let no further misunderstanding or disappointment from fellow readers hehe.

28 May 2024

First entry of my judgement of this book, I choose this book from the library where I work at (yes, I'm an actual librarian), however my field of work focuses on IB school libraries, which involves research and continuous growth of knowledge's scopes in terms of educational library, formal/academic research, copyrights issue aka academic honesty, and many more, the more proper term for my position is "teacher librarian". 

Obviously, I'm still talking about preread, but still on the context of its cover. I'm not going to lie that I am highly intrigued by this book because of this cover, the illustrator has done a remarkable job I can say, it's a good promotional value that every book or publisher must prioritize too. Why do I think the cover looks good? it is an unusual one, the title is "Camp Nowhere" and it doesn't show any glimpse of objects that correlate with camping at all, however it has one entity that connects well, which is well.. human. Multiple human, it's a boy, but all alike, however only one has normal eyes, the rest is abnormal, it's giving one clue to allow me to predict about the story. Is it about a ghost? but it's a glowy eyes, it is giving me sci-fi vibe.


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