Definition+of+Genre+Types

=An Overview of Novel/Genre Types=

Adventure Novels

 * exciting, fast-paced plot more importnat than characters, theme
 * Action moves swiftly as characters pursue clearly stated goal
 * Often takes the form of a journey

Biographical Novels

 * written as if it is about a person's life
 * can be written by someone else, or by protagonist
 * Although characters are fictitious, forms shares similarities with biographies, autobiographies
 * Example: Our canadian Girl (series)

Dairy Novels

 * Written as private account of progagonist
 * Story told as though novelist (protagonist) is unaware that anyone will read the story
 * Example: The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes (series) by Anne Mazer

Fantasy Novels

 * Imaginative, alternative world ruled by created laws and vlaues
 * Though set in the realm of majic, laws are consistent, credible
 * Often inhabited by supernatural and/or mythical creatures
 * Example: The Giver (trilogy) by Lois Lowry

Graphic Novels

 * Format is easily recognizable, by storyboard or comic-book presentation
 * Story os told through illustations and dialogue balloons, with some narration
 * Multi-genre appraoches including adventure, fantasy, humor
 * Example: Bone by Jeff Smith

Historical Novels

 * teach history by telling story of people who lived ina past time
 * Incorporate historical facts, though characters and events may be imaginary
 * Example: The Underground Railroad by barbara Smucker

Realistci Fiction

 * Deals with the immediate "here and now"
 * readers can identify with issues of behaviors and experiences
 * Relationships, friendships, and social attitudes and values predominate
 * Example: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

Science Fiction

 * Scientific facts, hypotheses, technology are featured to present other worlds, times
 * Speculate about possibilities of real world and futire world
 * Similarities between fictioanl and real world are deliberate; they are created to lead reader to consider our world from a new point of view