Book Genres

5. Script format with dialogue and stage directions; meant to be performed; focuses on realistic characters and emotional themes.
10. Fast-paced; involves risk, danger, and excitement; characters face challenges and obstacles; often set in exotic or dangerous locations.
11. Gives step-by-step instructions on how to do something; includes diagrams or lists.
12. Based on imagined future, technology, space, or science; may include time travel, aliens, or futuristic settings.
13. Provides facts, explains ideas, or teaches a process; objective and informative.
15. Explains natural events or cultural traditions; often involves gods, goddesses, and supernatural beings.
17. True story told like a fiction narrative; includes characters, setting, and plot.

1. Life story of a person written by someone else; third-person point of view.
2. Magical or supernatural elements; imaginary worlds; mythical creatures; often involves a quest.
3. A person’s life story written by themselves; first-person point of view.
4. Set in the present or recent past; believable characters and events; no magical elements.
6. Short story with animals or objects as characters; teaches a moral or lesson; often ends clearly stating the lesson.
7. Traditional story passed down orally; reflects the culture and values of a community; may explain customs or beliefs.
8. Set in the past; based on real historical events or periods; characters may be fictional but interact with real events.
9. Story based on a historical figure or event, exaggerated over time; mixes fact and fiction.
14. Magical elements, royalty, talking animals; often starts with 'Once upon a time'; good vs. evil theme; happy ending.
16. Uses rhythm, rhyme, and figurative language; expresses feelings or ideas in a condensed form.