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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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