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What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction?

• Fiction are chapter books for junior high and high school students.

• Nonfiction books are not real--they are all made up.

• Fiction books are not real and nonfiction is almost all real.

• Nonfiction books are not real and fiction books are about real things.

Which of the following sections of the library have two different fiction sections?

• Junior high and high school has easy picture books and chapter books.

• Elementary has easy picture books and chapter books.

How can you tell the difference between a fiction book and a nonfiction book just by looking at the spine label?

• Nonfiction books will have the author's name and fiction books will have a Dewey number.

• Fiction books will have an F and nonfiction books will have an NF at the tops of the labels.

• Everything is shelved by the author's last name so there is no difference.

• Nonfiction books will have a Dewey number above the first three letters of the author's last name.

Spine labels have no more than the first 3 letters of an author's last name. Because of this some spine labels will all look the same even though the author's name is longer than the 3 letters. Look at the following list of authors and choose the list that is in correct alphabetical order: Tad Hills, Margaret Hillert, Will Hillenbrand, Susanna Hill

• Hill, Hills, Hillert, Hillenbrand

• Hill, Hillenbrand, Hillert, Hills

• Hillert, Hillenbrand, Hills, Hill

• Hillenbrand, Hills, Hillert, Hill

Some authors have written multiple books. All of these books were written by April Henry:

The Body in the Woods

The Night She Disappeared

Girl, Stolen

Torched

The Girl I Used to Be

Count All Her bones

The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die

Blood Will Tell

Shock Point

What is the correct order they should be on the shelf?

(Hint: Always ignore "the," "a," and "an" if it is the first word in a title.)

• Blood Will Tell,

  Body in the Woods,

  Count All Her Bones,

  The Night She Disappeared,

  Shock Point,

  Torched,

  Girl, Stolen,

  The Girl I Used to Be,

  The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die

• It doesn't matter since they are all written by the same author.

• Blood Will Tell,

  The Body in the Woods,

  Count All Her Bones,

  The Girl I Used to Be,

  Girl, Stolen,

  The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die,

  The Night She Disappeared,

  Shock Point,

  Torched

• As long as Blood Will Tell is the first one and Torched is the last one, it doesn't really matter which order the others are in.

A call number with JUV on the spine label means:

• a juvenile level book for grades 3-8

• Juventus

• Juniors United in Vienna

• a young adult level book for grades 7-12

Which Dewey Decimal numbers are assigned to comic books or graphic novels?

• 599

• 001.44

• 796.3

• 741.5

A call number on the spine of a book is used to:

• keep books in the correct order on a shelf

• help someone find a book on a shelf

• is listed our online library database with the title of a book

• all of the above

The biggest advantage to using the Dewey system is to:

• organize books with the same reading levels

• organize fiction books so that those with the same authors will be together on the shelves

• organize nonfiction books so that books on the same subject will be found together on the shelves

• organize books of the same color

The name of our online database is:

• Athena

• Destiny

• Library Pro

• Alexandria