Genres
Definitions of genres and search strategies for finding them in the Curriculum Resource Center
Genres
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Realistic fiction/Coming-of-age
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Bildungsromans |
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Historical fiction
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Historical fiction |
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Science fiction
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Science fiction |
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Fantasy
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Fantasy |
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Mystery
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Detective and mystery stories |
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Adventure/Thriller
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Adventure stories or adventure fiction |
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Horror
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Horror tales or horror fiction or ghost stories or paranormal fiction |
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Romance
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Romance fiction |
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Sports
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Sports stories or sports fiction |
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Biography
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Biographies (genre search only) |
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Nonfiction
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Nonfiction (genre search only) |
Realistic Fiction
After Tupac and D Foster by Call Number: JUV W894aISBN: 9780399246548Publication Date: 2008-01-10In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
Front Desk by Call Number: JUV Y224fr 2018ISBN: 9781338157796Publication Date: 2018-05-29Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them.
Ghost Boys by Call Number: JUV R4761gh 2018ISBN: 9780316262286Publication Date: 2018-04-17After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Call Number: JUV M4911me 2018ISBN: 9780763690496Publication Date: 2018-09-11Merci Suarez relies on her close, extended family as she goes through many changes during her sixth-grade year at Florida's Seaward Pines Academy.
Rain Reign by Call Number: JUV M3792raISBN: 9780312643003Publication Date: 2014-10-07Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
The Season of Styx Malone by Call Number: JUV M2112se 2018ISBN: 9781524715960Publication Date: 2018-10-16Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
Snow Lane by Call Number: JUV A582sn 2018ISBN: 9781250150929Publication Date: 2018-01-02In 1985 Massachusetts, fifth-grader Annie wants to shape herown future but as the youngest of nine, she is held back by her hand-me-down clothing, a crippling case of dyslexia, and a dark family secret.
Fighting Words by ISBN: 9781984815682Publication Date: 2020-08-11Ten-tear-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf -- her protector. But who has been protecting Suki?
New Kid by ISBN: 9780062691200Publication Date: 2019-02-05Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade.
Historical Fiction
The Journey of Little Charlie by Call Number: JUV C9784jo 2018ISBN: 9780545156660Publication Date: 2018-01-30When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him.
The War That Saved My Life by Call Number: JUV B8113waISBN: 9780803740815Publication Date: 2015-01-08A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
West of the Moon by Call Number: JUV P9431weISBN: 9781419708961Publication Date: 2014-04-01In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.
Wolf Hollow by Call Number: JUV W8623woISBN: 9781101994825Publication Date: 2016-05-03Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran.
Science Fiction
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Call Number: JUV H719foISBN: 9780375870644Publication Date: 2014-08-26Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
The True Meaning of Smekday by Call Number: JUV R4548trISBN: 9780786849000Publication Date: 2007-10-02When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster.
Under Their Skin by Call Number: JUV H126un 2016ISBN: 9781481417587Publication Date: 2016-01-05Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger
Romance
Drama by Call Number: JUV T237dISBN: 9780545326995Publication Date: 2012-09-01Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
Flipped by Call Number: JUV V246fl 2001ISBN: 9780375825446Publication Date: 2003-05-13In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
Totally Joe by ISBN: 9780689839573Publication Date: 2005-10-01As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography, and explores issues of friendship, family, school, and the challenges of being a gay teenager.
Mystery
Belly Up by Call Number: JUV G444bISBN: 9781416987314Publication Date: 2010-05-18Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when Henry the hippo dies.
The Marvels by Call Number: JUV S4698maISBN: 9780545448680Publication Date: 2015-09-15In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant family of actors that flourishes in London until 1900. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis, runs away from home, seeking refuge with his uncle in London, and is captivated by the Marvel house, with its portraits and ghostly presences.
The Parker Inheritance by Call Number: JUV J710pa 2018ISBN: 9780545946179Publication Date: 2018-03-27When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter-writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle.
When You Reach Me by Call Number: JUV S7992wISBN: 9780385737425Publication Date: 2009-07-14As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Horror
The Dead Boys by Call Number: JUV B9232dISBN: 9780399252228Publication Date: 2010-09-02Timid twelve-year-old Teddy Mathews and his mother move to a small, remote desert town in eastern Washington, where the tree next door, mutated by nuclear waste, eats children and the friends Teddy makes turn out to be dead.
The Nest by Call Number: JUV O617neISBN: 9781481432320Publication Date: 2015-10-06When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means.
The Night Gardener by Call Number: JUV A9434niISBN: 9781419711442Publication Date: 2014-05-20Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Scary Stories for Young Foxes by ISBN: 9781250181428Publication Date: 2019-07-30A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness
Fantasy
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by Call Number: JUV A5478as 2018ISBN: 9780763698225Publication Date: 2018-09-25Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom - from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years.
The False Prince by Call Number: JUV N667faISBN: 9780545284134Publication Date: 2012-04-01In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Call Number: JUV B2625gi 2016ISBN: 9781616205676Publication Date: 2016-08-09An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her.
Sweep by Call Number: JUV A9434sw 2018ISBN: 9781419731402Publication Date: 2018-09-25In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Call Number: JUV G4539tISBN: 9780525423348Publication Date: 2010-10-28As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses, and outwitted witches.
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Call Number: JUV L735wISBN: 9780316114271Publication Date: 2009-07-01Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
Adventure/Thriller
Revolver by Call Number: JUV S448rISBN: 9780312547974Publication Date: 2011-09-27Fourteen-year-old Sig is stranded at a remote cabin in the Arctic wilderness with his father, who died just hours earlier after falling through the ice, when a terrifying man arrives, claiming Sig's father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold and that he will kill Sig if he does not get his money.
Stormbreaker by ISBN: 9780399236204Publication Date: 2001-05-21After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
The Winter Pony by ISBN: 9780440239727Publication Date: 2012-10-09Presents an account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it is like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before his rival, Roald Amundsen.
Sports
Baseball Genius by ISBN: 9781481468640Publication Date: 2017-03-07An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump.
Football Nightmare by Call Number: JUV H6688fISBN: 0316143707Publication Date: 2001-09-01Having dropped a pass and made his football team miss having an undefeated season, thirteen-year-old Keith fears that he will continue to make bad mistakes and wonders if he should continue playing football.
Play Makers by Call Number: JUV L9655plISBN: 9780545381833Publication Date: 2013-02-05Ben McBain is considered the best point guard in the league, but his teammate Chase Braggs is the complete opposite of Ben who likes to talk on the court and show off.
Ghost by ISBN: 9781481450157Publication Date: 2016-08-30Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential
Booked by ISBN: 9780544570986Publication Date: 2016-04-05Summary Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams
