Animal fiction: Story about animals that is not true

Animal nonfiction: A story about animals that’s factual

Autobiography: story an author writes about his or her own life

Biography: writer’s story about someone else’s life

Fable: short story that teaches a moral or lesson and often features talking animals

Fairy Tale: folklore featuring magic and supernatural elements that conveys a lesson of morality.

Fantasy: story that takes place in a make-believe setting, usually features characters with magical or supernatural powers

Folklore: story originally passed on by word of mouth from one generation of community to another, usually less serious than a myth

Historical fiction: fiction story that is mixed with facts and is based on a real place and time in history

How to: a book that tells you how to do something

Legend: folk story set in the present or the past and based on real events and people

Mystery: story that usually features characters that try to solve a crime

Myth: traditional story written to explain a people’s beliefs, a natural event, or the relationships of human beings and gods, goddesses, and heroes

Newbery: an award-winning story

Nonfiction: writing that is factual rather than fictional

Poetry: writing that is usually in verse and uses brief, colorful, and often rhythmic language to express human emotions and thoughts

Realistic fiction: story with imaginary characters and events that could exist in the real world

Science fact: a true book based on science

Science fiction:  introduces something that is new in the world of the story and does not have a referential analogue in the "real world" of the writer or the reader

Series books: books by the same author with the same characters

Tall tales: humorous story that features superhuman accomplishments and may be based on a real person’s life

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