To find out what kind of a reader you are... what reading personality you match, just take this ten question assessment. Make yourself an answer sheet numbered one through ten. Then, select the letter of the answer that feels most like who you are and write that letter next to the number of the question. When you are finished with all ten questions, click on the answer sheet.

This assessment will help you find out if you are a Belonger Connector, Jokester, Seeker or Answerman if you are a boy and if you are a Heart/Home/Friends Forever, Joan of Arc, Wild Thing or Investigator/Analyst if you are a girl. Then you can search abookandahug using your reading personality and your reading level to find books that match your preferences.

There are no right or wrong answers.  This is a tool to help you and your librarian find the books that will match your reading personality type.  ****

• Choose the word that connects to you/describes you the best:
  1. 1. realistic (You are not a fantasy fan.)
     2. imaginative  (You create new ideas and possibilities people haven't thought of before.)
     3. spontaneous  (You like to have fun and do things without making a plan.)
     4. vision (You can understand why doing something today will help in the future.)
  2. 1. sensible (You like knowing the rules for doing something.)
     2. passionate  (You care deeply about ideas and how they might help others.)
     3. troubleshooter (You like to fix things and play with a problem.)
     4. competence  (You want things done the right way.)
  3. 1. traditional (Like Thanksgiving to stay the same... no changing the stuffing or the pie.)
     2. warm-hearted  (Cares about everyone and how things might affect their feelings.)
     3. doer (You don't want to talk about it or write about it  - you want to be doing it.)
     4. proof  (You ask why and don't take someone else's word for it.)
• Which phrase best describes you:
  4. 1. I am down to earth 
     2. I want to make the world a better place
     3. I want the freedom to do something without any rules
     4. I’ll believe it when I’ve tested it
  5. 1. I like to follow the rules
     2. It’s important to be your genuine self
     3. Live for the moment
     4. I want to find a better way to do it
• Choose the word that describes/connects to you best
  6. 1. practical  (You like things in order, organized, and done as they should be.)
     2. feeling  (You understand that everyone has feelings and they can be sensitive.)
     3. impulsive  (You don't like rules and want the freedom to do things your way.)
     4. understand (You want to know why things are the way they are.)
  7. 1. details  (You pay attention to the commas and the rules.)
     2. possibilities  (You see the potential in ideas and people..what might be but isn't yet.)
     3. puzzle pieces  (You love to take something apart and play with it or fix it.)
     4. big picture  (You see how things are connected and what they might become.)
• Would you rather:
  8. 1. Go to a party?
     2. Read a book that describes a character who does a hard thing and learns they are special?
     3. Work with your hands? (maybe using a wrench or a paint brush?)
     4. Discuss the reasons for the Civil War?
• Would you rather:
  9. 1. Get together with your club?
     2. Sign a petition to save the whales?
     3. Figure out a new way to make a sundae?
     4. Argue about an idea or theory?
• If I had to choose one book to read every day for the rest of my life, it would be:
  10. 1. about sports, families or animals
      2. a book about people who are finding their true selves and striving to bring goodness to the world
      3. really funny or really scary
      4. a book that would teach me, inform me about how a country governs itself, how a detective solved a case, how a great person thought about the problems he or she faced

Now that you've completed the assessment, take a look at the Answer Key.

****Acknowledgement:  Thank you to Katherine Stehman, Librarian, Pennsylvania USA for sharing her explanations for the keywords that she devised for her students.