Research Skills
Literary Genres
DDS
Reference Books
Miscellaneous
100

Name one of the library databases.

What is Britannica Online? (World Book, Nat Geo, PebbleGo, and Culture Grams are also acceptable answers)

100
A true account of a person's life written by another person.
What is biography?
100
DDC stands for this.
What is Dewey Decimal (Classification) System?
100
This shows North, South, East, and West on a map.
What is a compass rose?
100

Books that are true are called this.

What is nonfiction?

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
Fairy tales and fables are located in this section.
What is 300-399?
200
Maps usually include this to indicate what the different colors and symbols on a map mean.
What is legend (or key)?
200
Non-fiction books are arranged by the author's name, by title, or by subject.
What is subject?
300
This is a list of the resources used to gather information for a report or project.
What is a bibliography?
300
This type of fictional story includes magic and creatures that don't exist in real life.
What is fantasy?
300

Biographies are located in this section.

What is 92 or 920s?

300
Encyclopedias are organized in alphabetical order by subject, author, or length of article.
What is subject?
300

The theme for April in the library is this.

What is National Poetry Month? (School Library Month is also accepted)

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

Nonfiction books are categorized using this person's organization system.

Who is Melvil Dewey?

400

This has guide words, pronunciation key, origin of the word, definition(s) and synonym(s).  

What is the dictionary?

400

True or false- you can download e-books for free using Silverbrook's Destiny Discover Catalog.

What is true?

500

Name this format: Author's last name, Author's first name. Title of book. City of publication: publisher, copyright date.

What are citations?

500

In this genre, characters and situations seem to be from the present day.

What is Realistic Fiction?

500
Books about ghosts are in this section.
What is 100-199?
500

Name a set of these reference books located behind the Circulation Desk.

What are World Book Encyclopedias, Natl. Geo. Kids Almanac set or World Atlas (4th Edition), dictionaries, and books on Virginia history?

500

Name the author of book series as My Weird School & The Genius Files.

Who is Dan Gutman?

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