Dewey Decimal
Genres
Parts of a Book
Library Expectations
Just for Fun
100

This Dewey category is one of our biggest nonfiction sections in the library, with books about planets, dinosaurs, and animals.

What is the 500s section?

100

These books are full of facts and information.

What is nonfiction?

100

Your books would be extra fragile without this, the outside that protects and holds together the pages.

What is the cover?

100

This is how your feet should move when you are in the library (and most of the school).

What is walking?
100

This is the name of your school mascot!

Who is Marley?

200

To communicate with others, you need to have this Dewey category.

What are languages, 400
200

These stories definitely could happen in real life, but they are made up.

Realistic Fiction

200

In the middle of the book holding all the pages together is something that is also in the middle of your back.

What is the spine?

200

Once you are done reading a library book, this is what you need to do so others can read it as well.

What is return?

200

This is how you spell your librarians' names (100 points for each correct name).

What is Mx. Morgan and Ms. Pinault?

300

Don't run to this section that has sports, art, and graphic novels!

What are the 700s?

300

Dragons, magic, imaginative worlds! This genre takes place in a world entirely different than ours.

What is fantasy?

300

This is what the librarians scan to check a book out to you.

What is the barcode?

300

When you want a book for another week, you put it in the white bin to do this.

What is renew?

300

This is our most popular graphic novel series.

What is Dogman?

400

Pets are animals, but they don't exist in nature, so they are in this section.

What are the 600s?
400

These books are designed to scare, excite, and keep you up at night!

What are horror/thriller books?

400

Lose your place? This tells you what page different sections or chapters start on!

What is the table of contents?

400

When you look a book up on the computers, you are looking for this to tell you where the book is.

What is the call number?

400

This is the name of the book dragon that lives on Mx. Morgan's desk.

Who is Bo?

500

This is the section that all of the fiction books would be in if we didn't separate them

What are the 800s?
500

If a book has aliens, robots, rocket ships or takes place in the future or a in galaxy far, far away, it is in this genre.

What is science fiction?

500

This is a label on every spine, it tells you where the book should go.

What is the call number?

500

When you use the computer, this is the website you are using.

What is Destiny?

500

Name 5 books that have been turned into movies or tv shows.

(answers vary)