Dewey Numbers
What is it about?
Find a Book
Parts of a Book
Miscellaneous
100

The letters or numbers on the label on the bottom of the book's spine.

What is the call number?

100

The section I would find an encyclopedia.

What is 000s?

100

A book about photography.

What is 770 section?

100

The name of the person who wrote the book.

What is author?

100

How many legs a spider has.

What is 8?

200

The 500's section.

What is science & math?

200

The section I would find a book to learn Spanish.

What is 460s or 400s?

200

A book about wild animals. 

What is 590's?

200

The page toward the front of the book listing topics and page numbers.

What is the table of contents?

200

The number of days in a year.

What is 365?

300

The 400's section.

What is Languages?

300

The section I would find a book about sports.

What is the 790's or 700's?

300

A book with the call number 917.71.

What is the history of knox county?

300

The page at the end of the book giving definitions of words from the book.

What is glossary?

300

The name for a group of lions.

What is a pride?

400

The 900's section.

What is Geography & History?

400

The section I would find a book about Education.

What is 370's or 300's?

400

A book about the human body.

What is 600's?

400

The wording next to a picture or photo with an arrow or in a text box.

What is caption?

400

The city where the Eiffel Tower is located. 

What is Paris?

500

The 600 section.

What is Technology?

500

The section I would find a Guinness World records book.

What is 000's.

500

A book with the call number 808.06.

What is Write Your Own Autobiography?

500

The type of books in the Dewey Decimal System.

What is nonfiction?

500

The name of Snow White's seven dwarfs.

Who is Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc, Bashful?

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