Nonfiction Book Parts
Library Neighborhoods
Reference Materials
More Reference Materials
eSources
100
It is like a dictionary for a particular book.
What is a glossary?
100
This is where you can find picture books.
What is Everybody Neighborhood (or Section)?
100
This is what to use if you need to find the meaning of a word.
What is a dictionary?
100
This is what you need to use to find the plural or the part of speech of a word.
What is a dictionary?
100
Destiny Quest is an example of this type of computer application.
What is a(n online) media (or library) catalog?
200
It lists the chapters in a book.
What is a table of contents?
200
It is the neighborhood you would search if you needed a book about John F. Kennedy.
What is Biography Neighborhood (or Section)?
200
This is what you need to use to find out how many people live in Atlanta, Georgia.
What is an almanac?
200
This is what you need to use to get a word that means the same as “good”.
What is a thesaurus?
200
This is a web page that has links to subscription databases for all Gwinnett County Public Schools students to use - free of charge.
What is the Online Research Library?
300
It is an alphabetical list of topics in a book.
What is an index?
300
This neighborhood’s books all have Dewey decimal numbers on them.
What is Nonfiction Neighborhood (or Section)?
300
This is what you need to use if you need to locate a country in Africa.
What is an atlas?
300
This is the volume that you need to use to find out how a car runs?
What is the “C” volume of the encyclopedia?
300
In a Destiny Quest Advanced Search, this is the word that you would choose from the first dropdown box to find a book by David Shannon.
What is the “Authors”?
400
This is where you can find the name of the book, the author’s name, the illustrator (if the book has illustrations), and the publisher.
What is a title page?
400
All of the books in this neighborhood are chapter books and have an “FIC” on the spine.
What is Fiction Neighborhood (or Section)?
400
This is what you use if you need to know how many species of frogs there are.
What is an encyclopedia?
400
This has general information about a variety of topics and is organized in volumes.
What is an encyclopedia?
400
When you are finished using a computer in the media center or in a computer lab, you must do this.
What is sign out (or sign off/log out/logoff)?
500
This is the word or words that tell you about the picture.
What is a caption?
500
This is where the dictionaries and encyclopedias that cannot be checked out are kept.
What is Reference Neighborhood (or Section)?
500
This is what you need to use if you need to improve your writing by using more interesting words.
What is a thesaurus?
500
This is what you would use to find out how to get from Boston to San Francisco.
What is an atlas?
500
To find out how many books you have checked out and when they are due, you must first login to Destiny Quest then click on these words.
What are "My Info"?
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