Genre Genius
This genre features stories set in the future, often involving advanced technology, space travel, or robots.
What is science fiction?
In what section of the library will you find the I SURVIVED series?
What is the fiction (chapter book) section?
This popular book series features a principal who gets hypnotized into wearing nothing but a cape and underwear.
What is Captain Underpants?
This standard-sized, short-tempered boy is the star of Dav Pilkey's blockbusting superhero series.
Who is Dog Man?
How is the author's name written in a book citation?
What is last name, first name?
This genre includes magical elements, talking animals, or medieval kingdoms that could never exist in the real world.
What is fantasy?
Under the Dewey Decimal system, you will find books about sharks, space, and dinosaurs in this specific hundreds section.
What is the 500s (Science)?
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Raina Telgemeier wrote this hit graphic novel about her painful middle school experience getting braces.
What is Smile?
These heavy metal or plastic blocks are placed at the end of a row of books to keep them standing upright.
What are bookends?
This genre features a puzzle or a crime that the main characters must solve using clues.
What is mystery?
What section will you find short fiction stories?
What is Everybody (E, picture) books?
This spooky, classic chapter book series by R.L. Stine is famous for giving readers "shivers"
What is Goosebumps?
In this massive series by Tui T. Sutherland, different dragon tribes fight a multi-generational war.
What is Wings of Fire?
This multi-shelved vehicle on wheels is what the librarian uses to move heavy stacks of books back to their proper sections.
What is a book cart (or book truck)?
This genre uses panels, speech bubbles, and sequential art to tell the story, and is highly popular in upper grades.
What is a graphic novel?
In what section of the library will you find the I SURVIVED series?
Fiction chapter books
This record-breaking book, published every year, features the world's tallest people, longest fingernails, and weirdest stunts.
What is the Guinness World Records?
This graphic novel series by Kazu Kibuishi follows Emily as she fights monsters in an underground world using a magical stone.
What is Amulet?
This is the term for a specific group of books that all follow the same characters in order, like Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Harry Potter.
What is a series?
This subgenre features a fake story, but it is set during a real time period in the past with accurate historical details.
What is historical fiction?
To find graphic novels or fiction books by a specific author, you look at this part of the call number, which features the first three letters of their last name. (Where is the call number located on a book?)
What is the spine (label)?
This survival story by Gary Paulsen follows a boy named Brian who must survive in the Canadian wilderness with only a single sharp tool.
What is Hatchet?
This dystopian series features Katniss Everdeen competing in a live-televised survival game.
What is The Hunger Games?
A spine label marked BIO or 92 means the book is about this specific topic.
What is a person's life (a biography)?