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Reference Section
• Information books
• Kept in library
• Online websites
• Quick answers
• Have a question?
• Ask librarian!
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Almanacs
• Collection of
Facts
• The Old Farmer’s
Almanac
• World Almanac
for Kids
• Kid’s Almanac
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Atlases
• Includes maps
• May have other
facts
• Goode’s World
Atlas
• Ultimate Atlas of
Almost Everything
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Dictionaries
• Define words
• Pronounce words
• American Heritage
Children’s Dictionary
• Scholastic Children's
Dictionary
• Specialty Dictionaries
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Encyclopedias
• General
information
• People, places
things
• World Book
• Scholastic
Children’s
Encyclopedia
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Thesaurus
• Show words with
same meaning
• Great for writing,
reports
• Children’s
Thesaurus
• Heritage Children's
Thesaurus
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Some Other Reference
• Guinness World
Book of Records
• Famous First Facts
• The American Book
of Days
• Fiesta: Country
Series
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More Reference Books
• Holiday Festivals
and Celebrations of
the World Dictionary
• A Treasury of
American Folklore
• The Oxford
Dictionary of Nursery
Rhymes
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Even MORE Reference
• Smithsonian’s Birds of
America
• Words to Rhyme With
• Wisconsin Blue Book
• Childcraft
• The Grolier Library of
American Biographies
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