Research Skills
Literary Genres
Authors
Reference Books
Miscellaneous
100

Name an library online resource where you can read books.

What is Sora, Capstone books or Tumblebooks?

100
A true account of a person's life written by another person.
What is biography?
100

This is the Author of the Captain Underpants series.

Who is Dav Pilkey?

100

This reference book will help you find the definition of words.

What is a dictionary?

100
Books that are true are called this.
What is non-fiction?
200
This book contains synonyms of other words.
What is the thesaurus?
200
This made up story takes place in the past.
What is historical fiction?
200

This author wrote the books in the Fly Guy series.

Who is Tedd Arnold?

200

This is a book of maps.

What is an atlas?

200
Non-fiction books are arranged by the author's name, by title, or by subject.
What is subject?
300


This online site will help you research a subject.

What is Pebble Go?

300
This type of fictional story includes magic and creatures that don't exist in real life.
What is fantasy?
300

This author wrote the books in the Harry Potter series.

Who is J.K. Rowling?

300

This reference book is published every year and full of world records of people with various achievements and extremes of the natural world.

What is the Guinness Book of World Records?

300

Fiction books are arranged by author or subject?

What is author?

400
True or false- a database is a better resource than Google when doing research.
What is true?
400
This is a made up story that involves science and travel to other worlds.
What is science fiction?
400

This author has written such books as Maximum Ride, I Funny, and House of Robots.

Who is James Patterson?

400
Use this to find the pronunciation of a word.
What is the dictionary?
400

True or false- you can download e-books for free through Sora.

What is true?

500

This is another name for the list of sources at the back of a nonfiction book.

What is a bibliography?

500

This is a genre of science fiction where a society is viewed as worse than the one in which we live.

What is dystopian?

500

This author wrote the Hunger Games series.

Who is Suzanne Collins?

500

This reference book (or set of books) gives information on many subjects and is typically arranged alphabetically.

What is an encyclopedia?

500

DDS stands for this.

What is the Dewey Decimal System?

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