Parts of a Book
PARSONS SCHOOL
Things in the Library
JEOPARDY GAME
Tell Me a Story
OPAC
Miscellaneous
100
This person who writes a book.
What is the author?
100

The special number on the back of the book used to scan and loan the book out to the student.

What is the Barcode?

100
This tells us when and where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
The meaning of the letter "O" in OPAC.
What is online?
100
This is the person who helps the writer fix his or her words.
What is the editor?
200
This person who draws the pictures
What is the illustrator?
200

The place where you bring your book to check out.

What is the Circulation Desk?

200
The people in a story.
What are the characters?
200
The meaning of the letter "P" in OPAC.
What is public?
200
This is the company that makes the book, such as Random House.
What is the publisher?
300
This is the section in the front of the book that lists the chapters.
What is the table of contents?
300
This holds the place on the shelf while you decide if you want to check out a book.
What is the shelf marker?
300
This is what characters in a story find difficult and challenging.
What is the problem?
300
The two colors a box can be in OPAC that tell us if a book is in the library or not.
What are green and red?
300
Examples of this are mystery, science fiction, and historical fiction.
What is genre?
400
This page shows the title, author, illustrator, publisher, and place of publication.
What is the title page?
400

You look for this in OPAC to know where to find a book on the shelf.

What is the call number?

400
When the problem in a story is fixed we call it this.
What is the solution?
400
The meaning of the letter "C" in OPAC.
What is catalog?
400
This tells us when a book was registered by the author and illustrator as their work.
What is the copyright?
500

This is the page in the back of the book that gives you the page numbers to find details in a book .

What is in the index?

500

You use this to hold your place in a book.

What is a bookmark?

500
The events that take place in a story.
What is plot?
500
What the letter "A" in OPAC means.
What is access?
500

This is the last name of a person who created a system to organize books in libraries.

What is Dewey?

(Dewey Decimal System)