Parts of a Book
The information that you will find on a title page of a book.
What is the title, author, illustrator and the publishing company?
Books that are organized by the Dewey Decimal system, many of them give you factual information.
What is nonfiction?
A reference book that will help define a word, give a part of speech, break a word in to syllables, etc
What is a dictionary?
The collection of books that contain imaginative or made up stories.
What is the fiction section?
The place to locate what is found in the library.
What is the patron's catalog or Destiny.
The page that you will find when the book was published.
What is the copyright page?
The genre of literature comprising narratives that take place in the past and are characterized chiefly by an imaginative reconstruction of historical events.
What is historical fiction?
The reference book filled with a variety of maps.
What is an atlas?
The collection of books that are organized by the Dewey Decimal system.
What is the nonfiction section?
Searching the patron's catalog with the name of a book.
What is a title search?
The part of the book that gives you terms and the page that you will find it in the book.
What is the index?
A form of fiction that draws imaginatively on scientific knowledge and speculation in its plot, setting, theme, etc
What is science fiction?
The reference book that gives you current up to date statistics.
What is an almanac?
The section of books that are referred to - to find information.
What is the reference section?
Searching the patron's catalog with the name of the person that wrote the book.
What is an author search?
The part of the book that tells the name of chapters and what page they start on.
What is the table of contents?
Fiction, although untrue, could actually happen. Some events, people, and places may even be real.
What is realistic fiction?
A book or set of books containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.
What is an encyclopedia?
The collection of books written about someone else's life.
What is the Biography section?
Searching the patron's catalog with what the book is about.
What is a subject/keyword search?
The mini dictionary in the back of some nonfiction books.
What is the glossary?
The literary work in metrical form; verse.
What is poetry?
The comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access, generally in a computer.
What is a data base?
A collection of magazines or other journals that are issued at regularly recurring intervals.
What is the periodical section?
Daily Double
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