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LET’S LOOK AT GENRE (FICTION)!
ADVENTURE…MYSTERY AND
DETECTIVE…FANTASY…HUMOROUS…HISTORICAL FICTION…REALISTIC
FICTION…ROMANCE…SCIENCE FICTION…HORROR…SCARY STORIES
GENRES
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ADVENTURE
 Action-packed
 Danger
 Exploration
 Stunts
 Daredevils
 Fear
of death
 Quick thinking
 Test
of strength
 Survival
 Wilderness
 Outdoors
 Faraway lands
 Heart-pounding
 Risk-takers
ADVENTURE
 Hatchet
 Bridge
to Terabithia
 The
Lightning Thief
 The
Tale of Despereaux
MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE
 Solving
cases
 Answering
question s
 Looking for clues
 Analyzing clues
 Police, detectives,
criminals
 Suspicious
characters
 Questions,
questions, questions
 Spies
MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE
 The
Thief Lord
 Harriet
the Spy
 Theodore
Boone, Kid Lawyer (series)
FANTASY
 Extraordinary,
unbelievable
characters and
events
 Mystical,
supernatural
characters and
events
 Magical worlds
 Unicorns
 Creatures
with
‘made-up’ names
 Dragons
 May include
elements of
adventure,
romance, science
fiction
FANTASY
 Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland
 James
and the Giant Peach
 The
Tale of Despereaux
 The
Hunger Games series
HUMOROUS
 Makes
you
laugh…in almost
every scene
 Troublemakers,
class clowns,
pranksters
 Play jokes on
people
 Bratty
 Unbelievable
 Stories
or poems
that rhyme
 Jokes and riddles
 People like you
 Comic strips
HUMOROUS
 Big
Nate series
 Diary
of a Wimpy Kid series
 Wayside
School series
HISTORICAL FICTION
 Over
50 years ago
 Famous historical
figures –
presidents,
explorers, war
heroes,
abolitionists,
humanitarians,
scientists
 Around
our world
 Usually involve
topics such as
poverty,
discrimination
and civil rights,
immigration,
wars, kingdoms,
slavery, other
topics studied in
history classes
HISTORICAL FICTION
 Fever
1793
 Invention
 The
of Hugo Cabret
Watsons go to Birmingham
REALISTIC FICTION
 Real
people
 Real
problems
 Real
successess
and failures
 Middle-schoolers
like you
 Realistic
worlds –
United States,
Canada, Europe
 Realistic
situations, hopes,
dreams
 School stories,
sports stories,
romance
REALISTIC FICTION
 Because
of Winn Dixie
 Judy
Moody
 Joey
Pigza Loses Control
ROMANCE
 Can
be realistic
fiction or fantasy
 Two characters in
love
 Relationships,
sometimes there is
drama
 Boyfriendgirlfriend
 Husband
and wife
 Prince and
Princess, King and
Queen, Princess
and Animal
Creature (frog)
 Everyday Worlds
 Kingdom
 Fantasy world
 Love
ROMANCE
 Beauty
 Book
and the Beast
of a Thousand Days
 Romiette
and Julio
SCIENCE FICTION
 Science
 Future
 Computers,
 World
Technology
 Imaginary
“scientific”
language
that does
not yet exist
 Outer space
 Robots
 Aliens
 Computergenerated images
SCIENCE FICTION
 Mockingjay
 Zathura
 Jumanji
HORROR/SCARY STORIES
 Dark,menacing
 Usually
occur at
scenes
 Graveyards,
haunted houses
 Scary
 Sometimes occur
on or around
Halloween
night
 Sometimes set in
deserted areas
 Vampires, goblins,
witches, the dead,
ghosts
 Not for the ‘faint
of heart’
HORROR/SCARY STORIES
 Goosebumps
 Scary
Stories to Read in the Dark
 Zom-B
series
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