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Locating Books
Reference Sources
Parts of a Book
Genres
Potpourri
100
Call numbers are located on this part of the book.
What is the spine?
100
Keyword to look up George Washington in the encyclopedia.
What is Washington?
100
The title, author, illustrator, and publication information is found on this page of a book.
What is the title page?
100
A book about a person's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
100
A statement that can proven true or false.
What is a fact?
200
You can use this tool to find out if the library has a certain book.
What is INFOCENTRE SEARCH?
200
The source/book you would use to find a map of California?
What is an Atlas?
200
A "mini dictionary" in the back of a book is called the _____________.
What is the glossary?
200
"What if" questions, scientific theories, futuristic technologies
What is science fiction?
200
The award given annually for the best children's story.
What is the Newbery Medal?
300
The type of book beginning with the call number F?
What is fiction?
300
This book/source would tell you the meaning and pronunciation of a word.
What is a Dictionary?
300
A list of chapters in the book and the page numbers they start on.
What is the Table of Contents?
300
Clues, red herrings(false clues), suspects, detectives
What is mystery?
300
Creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
Who was Melvil Dewey?
400
Fact, or non fiction, books are arranged using this sytem.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
400
This source/book would give you synonyms for a word.
What is a thesaurus?
400
An alphabetical list of keywords and their related page numbers that is found in the back of a book.
What is an index?
400
Stories about larger than life heroes such as Swamp Angel, Paul Bunyan, and John Henry.
What are tall tales?
400
Fiction and Easy Fiction books are arranged on the shelves by _______.
What is author's last name?
500
Four ways you can search for a book in the catalog.
What is title, author, subject, and keyword?
500
This source/book gives you general information on a variety of people, places, and things.
What is an encyclopedia?
500
The year a book is first published?
What is the copyright date?
500
Call number for folk and fairy tale books.
What is 398.2?
500
Copying information word-for-word from a book or website is called _________________.
What is plagiarism?