Book Types
a made-up story or novel
Fiction
a story presented in comic-strip format
Graphic Novel
Which Section:
Frizzy
by Claribel Ortega, Art by Rose Bousamra
New York Times-bestselling author Claribel A. Ortega and star debut artist Rose Bousamra's Frizzy is about Marlene, a young Dominican girl whose greatest enemy is the hair salon! Through her struggles and triumphs, this heartwarming and gorgeous middle-grade graphic novel shows the radical power of accepting yourself as you are, frizzy curls and all.
Graphic Novel
Stories about how an athlete or team, through strength, training, agility, and-or tactics, compete in the often corrupt world of sports.
Sports Fiction
Also known as Love Stories. Stories dealing primarily with romantic love.
Romance/Love Stories
Real info about real people
Memoir/Biography
a collection of fiction stories that are each shorter than a novel
Short Stories
Which Section:
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction — Zeus’ master bolt. Along the way, he must face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop him. Most of all, he must come to terms with a father he has never known, and an Oracle that has warned him of betrayal by a friend.
Fiction
Made up stories that sound like they could have happened in the real world but did not.
Realistic Fiction
Stories set during a time prior to the time in which they were written, and based around real events, people, or situations.
Historical Fiction
Facts, real information
Nonfiction/Information
Facts, real information told in a comic book style
Graphic Nonfiction
Which Section:
Notes from a Young Black Chef
by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein
By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi (winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for Rising Star Chef of the Year) had opened—and closed—one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with twenty thousand dollars that he made from selling candy on the subway, yet he’d been told he would never make it on television because his cooking wasn’t “Southern” enough. In this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, he shares the remarkable story of his culinary coming-of-age.
Biography/Memoir
An imaginary story that contains elements such as characters/creatures (i.e. dragons), settings (i.e. Narnia) or events (i.e. magic) that could NOT exist in the real world.
Stories that have a puzzle or crime that must be solved before the end of the book
Mystery
Real info about real people told in a comic book style
Graphic Memoirs
Which Section:
Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence
by Joel Christian Gill
Fights chronicles artist/author Joel Christian Gill's youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods... fights is somehow brutally raw, funny as hell, deeply sensitive and insightful in each vividly illustrated panel.
Graphic Memoir
Stories about the gruesome and horrific. Meant to scare the reader.
Horror
Stories written in a comical and amusing manner. Meant to make the reader laugh.
Humor
Which Section:
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
by Ellen Oh (Editor), Jacqueline Woodson, Kwame Alexander, and more
Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology—written by the best children’s authors—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.
Short Stories
Stories that deal with possible, though not necessarily probable, scientific events or concepts (i.e. time travel or alien encounter)
Science Fiction
Stories characterized by an emphasis on physical and potentially violent action, exotic locales, and danger
Adventure