What Genre? Game

Before you read a book, it is sometimes possible to tell what genre of literature it is by looking at the cover and reading the summary.

To play this game:

1. Look at the book cover, the call number, and read the summary.

2. Then decide what genre you think the book would be.

3. If you are correct, you will hear applause.

4. If you are wrong, you will hear a laser.

5. To go to the next book, click on the next button in the bottom right-hand corner.

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What Genre?

Summary:Left on their own in London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and find their father.

Call Number:

FBUL

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:Discusses the effects of some of nature's most violent phenomena.

Call Number:

551.2GRA

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Informational

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:The adventures of the Alden children as they take up residence in an old lighthouse.

Call Number:

FWAR

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?Summary:After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven.Call Number:

FFUN

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:The life story of John F. Kennedy, America's youngest elected president.

Call Number:

921KEN

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Poetry

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

What Genre?

Summary:Rhyming verse about the ups and downs of elementary school life

Call Number:

811DAK

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What Genre?

Summary:The adventures of Captain Nemo and his crew aboard the submarine, Nautilus. They come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.

Call Number:

FVER

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:According to legend, when the eldest son fell in the well and almost drowned, the Chinese decided to give all their children short names.

Call Number:

398.2MOS

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:The Ingalls family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie.

Call Number:

FWIL

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:The town's ten-year-old walking encyclopedia again solves ten neighborhood mysteries.

Call Number:

F SOB

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:For his tenth birthday, Jack wants a robot so he'll have someone to play with.

Call Number:

F SLO

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Poetry

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

What Genre?

Summary:When her kindergarten class has Job Day, Junie B. goes through much confusion and excitement before deciding on the "bestest" job of all.

Call Number:

811SIL

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What Genre?

Summary:When her kindergarten class has Job Day, Junie B. goes through much confusion and excitement before deciding on the "bestest" job of all.

Call Number:

FPAR

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:An African version of the familiar story of a man who sets off to sell his hats, only to have them stolen by a treeful of mischievous monkeys.

Call Number:

398.2DIA

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:Facts about mummies and mummification--natural and man-made--from around the world.

Call Number:

393 PUT

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Informational

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:Laurie and his family attempt to flee England when the Tripods descend from outer space and begin brainwashing everyone with their hypnotic Caps.

Call Number:

FSLO

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:The life story of the prolific inventor who had a keen interest in voice and sound and who worked tirelessly on behalf of deaf people.

Call Number:

921BEL

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:Twelve-year-old Greg is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.

Call Number:

F CLE

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia..

Call Number:

F LEW

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:Cam and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds.

Call Number:

F ADL

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:Disgusted that a family with three girls moves into the house across the river, nine-year-old Wally and his three brothers declare a practical joke war on the girls.Call Number:

FNAY

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:Mary Ellen Todd and her family move from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.

Call Number:

F VAN

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:Recounts the life story of the author of the "Little House" books, from her childhood in Wisconsin to her old age at Rocky Ridge Farm.

Call Number:

921WIL

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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What Genre?

Summary:A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her firstborn child.

Call Number:

398.2ZEL

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography

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Congratulations!

You know your genres.

Realistic Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Folktale

Biography