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 of Hugo Cabret

The 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

Boyfriend-girlfriend

Husband and wife Prince and

Princess, King and Queen, Princess and Animal Creature (frog)

Everyday Worlds Kingdom Fantasy world Love

ROMANCE Beauty and the Beast

Book of a Thousand Days

Romiette and Julio

SCIENCE FICTION Science Computers,

Technology Imaginary

“scientific” language

Future World that does

not yet exist Outer space Robots Aliens Computer-

generated images

SCIENCE FICTION Mockingjay

Zathura

Jumanji

HORROR/SCARY STORIES Dark,menacing

scenes Graveyards,

haunted houses Scary Sometimes

occur on or around Halloween

Usually occur at 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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