Overview
What is Contemporary Realistic Fiction?
The decades New Realism emerged.
What are the 1960s and 1970s?
This series follows Greg Heffley and his many adventures in middle school.
What is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
This category is interested in the score and who wins the game.
What is Sports?
True or False: Books can fit into many different categories.
What is True?
True or False: Contemporary Realistic Fiction provides a snapshot of society and a child's place in it.
What is True?
True or False: Traditional Family Values were maintained during New Realism.
What is False?
This series follows a little girl in kindergarten and 1st grade who is very sassy and whose middle name is Beatrice, but she only likes B., and that's all.
What is Junie B. Jones?
This category is often set in the wilderness.
What is Survival?
This category is often short reads and makes people laugh.
What is Humor?
This movement changed society by helping to end segregation.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
New Realism lifted what to show the harsher parts of life in literature.
What are taboos?
This book follows Max, who is sent to bed with no dinner after he puts on his wolf suit and wreaks havoc around the house. He sails away to an island of creatures who make him their king. He eventually gets lonely and returns home to find his hot dinner in his room. This book was one of the first to show children's emotions, especially anger.
What is Where the Wild Things Are?
This category explores the bond between humans and what.
What is Animals?
This category follows a character/ setting over many books.
What is a Series?
Who experiences the same disappointments, hopes, and reactions and is a kindred spirit to the reader.
Who is the Main Character?
Harriet the Spy (Louis Fitzhugh, 1964) was famous for showing Harriet being what by her parents.
What is neglected?
What is The Snowy Day?
This category is famous for whodunits and is the most popular category since the 1920s.
What is Mysteries?
This category combines discovery and excitement.
What is Adventure?
True or False: All children's books main characters are children.
What is False?
The book market during this time began to shift away from libraries and towards what.
What is Consumers?
This series follows a teen detective in Maine who solves mysteries after her mother's death. She has also teamed up with the Hardy Boys.
What is Nancy Drew?
This category deals with serious issues (mental and physical illness, death, abuse, loneliness, etc.), and the issue is the story's main focus.
What are Problem Stories?
This category has books in familiar children's environments around classmates and family members.
What are School and Family Stories?