Genre - class or category: pertaining to a distinctive literary type.
- Adventure Fiction - Action packed stories of heroes fighting villains and/or nature.
- Animal Fiction - Stories in which an animal plays an important role in the plot.
- Biography - The nonfiction telling of a person’s life. (Call number is 921)
- Fantasy - Stories that involve characters and events that could not exist in real life.
- Historical Fiction - Made up stories that take place during a specific period in history.
- Humorous Fiction - A funny story.
- Mystery and Detective Fiction - Stories in which the characters have to figure out something unexplained or secret.
- Nonfiction - Contains true or factual information. (check call number)
- Realistic Fiction - Stories that take place in the present and include a social or personal problem.
- Science Fiction - Adventures in outer space, in the future, or based on a scientific principle.