Most stories fall into this genre. These stories are made-up or a product of the author’s imagination.

Writing that is “true,” or factual.

This type of writing helps people perform everyday tasks in their daily lives.

A story based on a real person, but the facts are stretched beyond the true story.

When someone writes their own life story, it falls into this genre.

Stories with gods and/or goddesses that usually account for the creation of something.

The main character in these suspenseful stories investigate and solve problems or crimes.

Stories with magic and/or talking animals, usually have a human main character, and start with “Once upon a time”.

Stories that have the main character’s strength, skills, or size greatly exaggerated in a humorous way.

The true story about a person's life written by someone else.

Very short stories with talking animals that are meant to teach humans a lesson, or moral.

A made up story that takes place in a past time and setting and might include real people, places, and events.

Stories with aliens, advanced technology, or futuristic weaponry.

This type of writing helps inform the reader about the natural or social world (does not use characters).

Stories with magic, monsters, superpowers, or other things that do not exist in reality.

Stories that could actually happen but didn’t. They include modern day problems or events.

The life of Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None is historian Stephen B. Oates's acclaimed and enthralling portrait of America's greatest leader. Oates masterfully charts, with the pacing of a novel, Lincoln's rise from bitter poverty in America's midwestern frontier to become a self-made success in business, law, and regional politics.

Logan arrives in Tombstone, Arizona in the spring of 1885, to bury his father after he was gunned down during a robbery of the Wells Fargo stage. Logan is determined to join the posse that will help bring the outlaws responsible to justice.

Daisy Mae is the beautiful school teacher and the preacher's daughter, who turns Logan's head and hopes she can convince him to give up his gun-slinging ways.

Thumbelina is a tiny girl who emerges from a flower. She is captured by a toad, a beetle and then a mouse, who all want to marry her. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size. She receives a pair of wings to accompany her husband on his travels from flower to flower and lives happily ever after.

In a story made up by an author, Bethany, a young peasant girl, is appointed in 1558 to serve Mary, Queen of Scots, who is imprisoned in a castle in Scotland. Bethany’s run in with Mary teaches her that it’s not always good to be Queen.

A map of the highways in the United States to use on your cross-country road trip.

Your science textbook falls into this genre.

A type or kind of literature.