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About this Genre: This genre involves stories that reflect a wide range of societal structures, beliefs, ethics, attitudes, morals, abilities, ethnicities, family structures, and countries.
Importance: This genre helps challenge what children view as “normal” and shows them that there are more than one way of living life outside of a middle-class American suburbian existence. It [...]

About this Genre: Historical Fiction uses the facts and events of history to create a time and place, so the author can set a fictional character or a fictional story plot in the middle.
Importance: This genre shows children a way of living outside of modern technology. It gives them a view into how their ancestors [...]

About this Genre: Realistic Fiction is based in actuality and realism. It is about people, places and events that could actual exist and happy in our earthly realm.
Importance: This genre lets children easily live the events that happen and compare themselves to the human character presented. It gives an intense [...]

About this Genre: Fantasy / Science Fiction takes stories beyond the realm of known earthly possibilities and scientific laws. It typically incorporates worlds and universes outside of our own, other species (elves, dragons, wizards, dwarfs, etc.), and humans with abnormal capabilities. Science Fiction differs from fantasy in that its stories are based upon advancement of [...]