Genre Practice

Percy Jackson has just discovered that he’s the son of a Greek god. With the help of his friends, a satyr and a daughter of the goddess Athena, he must rescue Zeus’s master lightning bolt while trying to fight off the mythical creatures determined to keep him from succeeding.

• realistic fiction

• horror

• fantasy

• mystery

Corinne doesn’t believe in the jumbies, scary creatures that live in the woods and prey on people. Then one day a strange lady walks into Corinne’s house and takes over. Corrinne must brave the terrors of the forest to save her family and her village.

• horror

• science fiction

• mystery

• fantasy

Greg Heffley has just started middle school. Everyone is taller than he is, and he is an immediate social outcast.

Greg tries to navigate the wrestling team, the school play, and losing his best friend, all in the same school-year.

• horror

• science fiction

• mystery

• realistic fiction

In the future, Earth has been attacked twice by insect-like aliens and is about to be attacked again. To protect the Earth from these aliens, Ender Wiggin and the other children at Battle School are trained through a series of video games to perfect their tactical strategy.

• horror

• science fiction

• mystery

• realistic fiction

Claudia and Jamie Kincaid decide to run away from home and live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While living in

the museum, they discover a statue that may be a priceless work of art. To answer the riddle of the statue, they must find clues in the home of an eccentric collector.

• historical fiction

• fantasy

• mystery

• horror

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At the beginning of World War II, the Nazis begin to take away the Jews of Copenhagen, Denmark. Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in her best friend, Ellen Rosen, and helps smuggle Ellen and her family to safety in Sweden.

• historical fiction

• fantasy

• mystery

• horror

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How can you tell the genre or subgenre of a book?

First, you can look at the cover. Is there a picture of a Revolutionary War soldier? That’s a good clue the book is historical fiction.

You can also read the title.

There is usually a summary of the book on the cover, back cover or inside flap. The information in the summary can help you figure out the genre of the book, and can tell you if it is fiction or nonfiction.

You can read the table of contents, which tells you what kind of information is in the book or how the story will go.

You can even open to the first chapter and read the first few lines.

Which of the following gives you the first clue about the genre or subgenre of a book?

• the first chapter

• the title and cover

• the first few lines

• the table of contents

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Which of these is not a subgenre of fiction?

• fantasy

• nonfiction

• mystery

• science fiction

True or False: Different subgenres cannot share any traits with each other.

• True

• False

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A story about a stolen diary that someone must find is an example of a

• science fiction

• mystery

• fantasy

• horror

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