Library Lingo
Genres (Types of books)
Authors
Parts of a book
Hodge Podge
100
The person who wrote the book...
Who is the author?
100
A book that is fake or not real...
What is fiction?
100
This person wrote the My Weird School series...
Who is Dan Gutman?
100
I am the part of the book that protects, shows the title, the author, and a picture...
What is the front cover?
100
Something that you can use to do research that is NOT a book...
What is the Internet?
200
The name for a book of maps...
What is an atlas?
200
A book that is entirely made up of facts...
What is nonfiction?
200
This author loved to rhyme so much that sometimes he had to invent new words...
Who is Dr. Seuss?
200
If I get broken the pages may fall out of my book...
What is the spine?
200
The inventor of the Dewey Decimal System?
Who is Melvil Dewey?
300
The way that fiction books are arranged on the shelf...
What is alphabetical or ABC order?
300
A book that someone writes about their own life...
What is an autobiography?
300
This author has written popular books series, including: Goosebumps and Fear Street.
Who is R. L. Stine?
300
I am located on the spine of library books and serve as the address for placing them on the shelf...
What is the call number?
300
A reference book that helps you locate synonyms and antonyms of words...
What is a thesaurus?
400
A company that organizes and puts the book together so that it can be sold...
What is a publisher?
400
A book that COULD be real, but is not.
What is realistic fiction?
400
This author has written around 100 books about sports related topics with characters that he loves to invent...
Who is Matt Christopher?
400
I am a section in the back of nonfiction books and textbooks that offers definitions for books...
What is the glossary?
400
I am a listing of key words and the page numbers where these words can be found in TRUE books... what am I?
What is an index?
500
The book's birthday...
What is the copyright date?
500
A type of book that combines characters, magic, and some type of problem...
What is a fairy tale?
500
Three ladies have combined their talents to write under ONE pen name for the popular Warriors series, what is that pen name?
Who is Erin Hunter?
500
I am the page in a library book that contains the title, the publisher, place of publication, and other key information...
What is the title page?
500
Tell me the name of an award that is given for the best children's book OR an award that is given for pictures in children's books...
What is the Newbery Award or the Caldecott Award?
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