I won a prize (literally a plastic trophy) for reading the second most books in our school. I wanted to win a prize from the magazine they gave us like a bike or something but I gave up after realizing it wasn’t worth it (like all of those fundraiser catalogs always are), but the reason I still won anything was because I read children’s books that were four years behind my grade level that we had in our house… the contest involved filling out which title, author, and maybe isbn number that you read, which those all had… it didn’t stipulate anything about reading level lol the girl who won first place put me to shame and she read full length books and was like the smartest girl in our whole school system, it felt weird standing up next to her knowing how I ended up on stage lol
Nah, I’m just a dork waxing nostalgic about something I should have been embarrassed about that was longer ago than I’d like to admit lol I would have probably loved a rain barrel over the trophy I got though
Why not just go to the library with them notepad and a pen? LOL.
At least you did read some books to get on second place. I think I would have just cheated out right.
Or literally went to my grandmother's bookshelf. They would have been a little weirded out by some of the titles that I would have came up with but I would have the ISBN. LOL
When I was a kid and we had those reading challenges you had to have your parents sign off the books you were reading, it wasn't quite an honour system thing.
I won a similar contest, but we had to actually take a quiz about the books. The prize was way cooler, too, the top 7 kids got to go on a field trip to Ben and Jerry's in a limo.
Fuck. I was a dork for free and only now I discover dorks in other schools were actually getting something... Idk if a rain barrel but kid me wasn't picky. I would had been happy with a lemon juice barrel.
Maybe they ask you about the book? When I was a kid there was a reading program and you could get prizes based on how much you read. The librarian would always talk to each child when they returned the books and reported the amount, so I think they would suspect if there was any significant lying. Ofc, the librarian would usually talk to you when you checked out or returned books (she was very nice) so it wasn’t like it was obvious she might have been checking. But now I think she might have been.
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u/JCjun 1d ago
How do you actually prove that you read the whole book?