GENRE
LIBRARY ORGANIZATION
HODGE PODGE
REFERENCE
BOOKS!
100
A fiction book that takes place in a specific time in the past
What is historical fiction?
100
The system we use to organize our non-fiction books
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
100
This is the white sticker on the front of the book which is scanned to check a book out to a student
What is the barcode?
100
This is a book of maps
What is an atlas?
100
Young boy's parents die and he is left with a mark - he uses magic and the help of his teachers at an unusual school to defeat his foes
What is the Harry Potter series?
200
Harry Potter would be an example of this genre; wizards, talking animals, magic, secondary worlds, mythical creatures...
What is fantasy?
200
The number of categories Dewey divided our non fiction section into
What is ten?
200
I want to be very specific when searching for a book - I would use this type of a search
What is a boolian or power search?
200
I need to find a synonym for the word "great"
What is a thesaurus?
200
Author of the Percy Jackson series
Who is Rick Riordan?
300
These stories have been handed down orally (The First Strawberries is an example) and explain how something came to be
What is a legend?
300
These books are used for research and may not be checked out to students to take home
What are reference books?
300
Using someone else's work or creation without their permission
What is plagiarism?
300
The words at the top of encyclopedia and dictionary pages that tell us the first and last word/topics found o the page
What are guide words?
300
Biography of first African American to play on a major league baseball team and to enter Baseball Hall of Fame
Who is Jackie Robinson?
400
This genre is written in verse in a way that makes the reader feel emotions....sometimes includes rhyme and rhythm
What is poetry?
400
Fiction books are shelved in this order
What is alphabetical order by the author's last name?
400
This law protects the work of the creator
What is copyright?
400
These contain multiple volumes with a multitude of information - people, places, animals, events, etc
What is an encyclopedia
400
Tall tale about a big baby, who grows up to be a very large man with a pet blue ox named Babe
Who is Paul Bunyan?
500
A short story with animals usually taking on human characteristic that teach a lesson or moral
What is a fable?
500
I am looking for a biography about Peyton Manning - what is my call number?
What is 92 Man?
500
Program that searches information on World Wide Web by looking for keyword....Ask.com, Yahoo, Google are examples
What is a search engine?
500
Published yearly containing miscellaneous facts and stats
What is an Almanac?
500
The boy who lived on Fairfield St. grew up to be this amazing author
Who is Theodore Seuss Giesel?