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 is Mrs. Coffman's favorite genre.
What is mystery?
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?
Mrs Coffman's sons play what sport.
What is football?
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 number of years Mrs. Coffman has taught total.
What is 28 years?
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?
This is how many years Mrs. Coffman has been at Kiewit.
What is 8 years?
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?
Of the Millard Reads nominees, Mrs. Coffman's said this book is her favorit.
What is Powerful or The Naturals?
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?