Genre Characteristics

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Monsters, magic, and animals talking

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Fantasy

Front

Aliens, Space Craft, technology, settings in the future

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Science Fiction

Front

A story with suspects, clue, and usually a crime that needs to be solved

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Mystery

Front

A story set in a real place in the past (like World War II) with made up, but believable characters.

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Historical Fiction

Front

A real story where the author writes about him or herself.

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Autobiography

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This genre has characters, settings, and events that could happen in real life.

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Realistic Fiction

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The TRUE story of a person's life in which the author is writing about someone else.

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Biography

Front

Has facts, details, and can include images, glossary, graphs, and maps

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Informational

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What genre is it?

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Fantasy

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What genre is "The Book Thief...tells us about Liesel, a girl growing up in Germany during World War II. She steals books, learns to read, and finds comfort in words. She and Max, the Jew her family protects, are the only main characters that survive the war."?

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Historical Fiction