Setting
A book that is set in the past.
Historical fiction
In this genre, characters do impossible things (like fly or perform real magic).
Fantasy
The authors in this genre love to use rhymes, rhythms, or beats.
Poetry
This genre might teach us how to cook or play a sport.
Informational (nonfiction)
A group of kids gets locked into a library and solves puzzles to break out.
Mystery (Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library)
This setting can be imaginary.
Fantasy or Fairy tale
This genre often has princes, princesses, or magical characters.
Traditional literature (or Fairy tales)
Someone writes about their own life in this genre.
Autobiography
These stories might have a crime to be solved.
Mystery
James enters a peach as big as a house, and he meets wonderful new friends there.
Fantasy (James and the Giant Peach)
This genre is set in real places and might have real people from history, but the story is made up.
Historical fiction
The characters in this genre are realistic, and you could picture yourself as a character in the story.
Realistic fiction
The authors of this genre might write stories about aliens, UFOs, robots, or time machines.
Science fiction (Sci-fi)
These kinds of stories are from an author's imagination and are meant to entertain us.
Fiction
Realistic fiction (Frindle)
This setting takes place in the future.
Science fiction
This genre has characters that are solving problems using clues.
Mystery
This genre's author writes about someone else's life.
Biography
This genre includes several types of stories, and one of those types teaches a lesson.
Traditional literature (fable)
A boy is stranded in the middle of San Francisco in 1906 as it crumbles and burns to the ground.
Historical fiction (I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906)
The setting of this genre doesn't really exist, but it is modeled after a place thaat really does exist.
Realistic fiction
This genre might have characters that are robots.
Science fiction (Sci-fi)
The stories in this genre were originally spoken and not written down by a single person.
Traditional literature
A story that is meant to be acted out on the stage.
Drama or Play
A princess is mistreated by her family and attends a ball, but she loses her glass shoe on the way home.