SSYRA
Dewey Decimal Numbers
Library Sections
Reference Section
Shelf Order
100

3 grade levels that participate in SSYRA

What is 3rd, 4th and 5th grade? 

100

A book about animals

What is the 500s? 

100

The chapter book "The Terrible Two" 

What is the fiction section? 

100

A reference book containing words in alphabetical order with their definitions 

What is a dictionary? 

100

Easy fiction 

What is alphabetical (ABC) order by author's last name? 

200

Number of books you have to read to participate in statewide voting 

What is 3 books? 

200

A book about sports 

What is the 700s? 

200

An informational book about rocks on your grade level 

What is the non-fiction section? 

200

A reference book with an alphabetical list of words and their synonyms 

What is a thesaurus? 

200

Fiction

What is alphabetical (ABC) order by the author's last name? 

300

Number of books you have to read to participate in Stockton's End-of-the-year celebration 

What is 5 book? 

300

A book about France 

What is the 900s? 

300

The picture book "If You Give A Pig A Pancake" 

What is the easy (or everybody) fiction section? 

300

A reference book of maps of the world 

What is an atlas? 

300

Number system by which non-fiction books are organized 

What is the Dewey Decimal System? 

400

Number of SSYRA books on the list each year

What is 15 books? 

400

A book about a holiday 

What is the 300s? 

400

An informational text about the life of Abraham Lincoln 

What is the biography section? 

400

A reference book with facts and events important to that particular year 

What is an almanac? 

400

Non-fiction

What is number order (by the Dewey Decimal System)? 

500

Voted Stockton's favorite SSYRA book this year 

What is "Maxi's Secrets"? 

500

A joke book 

What is the 800s?

500

Atlas 

What is the reference section? 

500

A set of reference books that contains information about a variety of topics arranged in alphabetical order 

What is an encyclopedia? 

500

Biography 

What is alphabetical (ABC) order by the subject's last name? 

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