Nonfiction accounts of a person's life based on documented facts and events. Fictionalized biography is grounded through research but the author dramatizes certain events and personalizes the subject.
Imaginative writing that accurately reflects life as it was lived in the past or as it could be lived today. Set and/or written in the past twenty years.
Realistic stories that were set in the past. Draws on two sources, fact and imagination. Helps children to understand historical events and the struggles that have characterized the human condition across the centuries. Set before 2000.
Stories that use elements that are fantastic, futuristic, or supernatural and defy the rules of the world as we know it - with an identifiable author. Includes fantasy, science fiction, and other subgenres.
Shows people from diverse groups playing and working together, solving problems, and overcoming obstacles. Helps people understand that despite our many differences, people share common as well as unique perspectives. This category includes books about more than just ethnic and racial diversity, such as LGBT, people with disabilities, etc.
Stories born of oral tradition, including folktales, fables, myths, epic and legendary heroes, bible as literature - typically without an identifiable author.