The number of Maine Student Book Award books you must read in order to qualify to vote in the statewide MSBA election in March.
What is 3?
100
The number of books you can have checked out at one time.
What is 3?
100
The name of the prestigious award given every year to one author that makes the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".
What is the Newbery Medal Award?
100
The section of the Library where books are shelved by the author's LAST NAME.
What is the Fiction section?
100
The system used to organize nonfiction books in our school library.
What is The Dewey Decimal System?
200
The title of a book on this year's Maine Student Book Award list.
What is (the title of any of the 39 nominees)?
200
The name of ONE of the MAMS librarians.
What is Mrs. Purdy, Mrs. Rogers, or Mrs. Jerome?
200
A print resource where you can look to read information that is more CURRENT than what you will find in books.
What is Magazines and Newspapers?
200
You can search HERE for authors, titles and subjects of books in the Library.
What is the Online Card Catalog?
200
The name of a social networking website where you can share the books you're reading with others and rate the books you read.
What is Shelfari?
300
One of the scents of the MSBA Challenge "scratch 'n sniff" bookmarks.
What is Pickles, bubble gum, gummy worms, burnt rubber, roasted marshmallow, dirt & worms, chocolate, or popcorn?
300
What you are allowed to STEAL in the Library.
What is time to read?
300
The genre of literature where we can see dragons, unicorns, vampires, and other creatures that do not exist in real life.
What is Fantasy?
300
What you type in FIRST in the online card catalog when searching for a book by the author's name.
What is the author's LAST name?
300
Where a librarian in Iowa found Dewey the kitten on a cold day in January.
What is a Library Book Return Box?
400
The name of this year's Maine Student Book Award book about a boy who finds a baseball card that is worth millions.
What is Swindle?
400
What you can do if a book is checked out and you would like to read it.
What is reserve it at the circulation desk?
400
The genre of literature that takes place in the past.
What is Historical Fiction?
400
This is located on the spine label of a book and helps you find a book on the shelf.
What is the Call Number?
400
The type of book that is written about a person's life.
What is a Biography?
500
The title of this year's Maine Student Book Award nominee about three brothers who survive a terrible storm at sea only to end up stranded on a deserted island with little food, little water, and little hope of rescue.
What is The Great Wide Sea?
500
How much the MAMS Library fines you (per day) if you have an overdue book.
What is nothing?
500
What many of us judge a book by when choosing what to read.
What is the Cover?
500
Books about wild animals are in THIS general Dewey Decimal section of the library.
What is the 500s?
500
The first AND last name of the man who invented the System used to organize nonfiction books in libraries.