Library Lingo
The place in the library where you check out and return books.
What is the circulation desk?
The first page of a book usually contains the title, author, and publisher.
What is the title page?
This book is historical fiction and about a ship.
What is Iceberg?
The part of the library where you can find books based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biographies or history.
What is the nonfiction section?
The name of the pig in Charlotte's Web.
What is Wilber?
The official term for a book’s unique address on the shelf.
What is a call number?
The person who writes a book.
Who is an author?
Words From Home is written with this literary device.
What is verse?
The number of days a book is checked out to you.
What is 14 days or 2 weeks?
In this story a poor boy finds a golden ticket in a chocolate bar.
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
The category that groups books based on the type of story they tell.
What is genre?
This tells when a book was published.
What is the copyright date?
The only nonfiction book.
What is Free Lunch?
If a book is not available, you can request it and be next in line to check it out.
What is placing a hold?
The author of Little House on the Prairie.
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
A system that organizes books by subject using numbers and decimals.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
The story of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
The author of Two Degrees.
Who is Alan Gratz?
When you check out a book and want to keep it longer, you can do this if no one else has requested it.
What is renewing the book?
Rodrick is the older brother in this series.
What is Diary of the Wimpy Kid?
The number of genres Kiewit library is broken into.
What is 10?
A book that contains maps and geographical information.
What is an atlas?
This book is a mystery?
What is Girl Forgotten?
The process of borrowing a book from another library in the system.
What is interlibrary loan?
This book is dystopian fiction and the main character is sent to the Capital from District 12.
What is the Hunger Games?