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Books that conform to a particular type. The primary school's cataloguing reference Te Patakataka identifies the following fiction genre:

Adventure stories Alphabet books
Animal stories Australian fiction. (fiction works about Australia or by Australian authors)
Big books. (Oversize books) Chapter books (Beginning). Easy chapter fiction written for newly independent readers.
Christmas stories Counting books
Crime stories Detective and mystery stories
Easter stories Fairy tale adaptations. (Modern versions and spoofs of stories based on traditional fairy tales.)
Family stories Fantasy
Farm stories Ghost stories
Graphic novels High interest low vocabulary books.
Historical stories Horror stories
Humorous stories Love stories
New Zealand fiction. (Fiction works about New Zealand or by New Zealand authors.) Pacific Island stories. (Stories with Pacific Island cultural content or themes written in either English or Pacific Island languages.)
Pioneer stories Plot your own stories
School stories Science fiction
Short stories Sophisticated picture books
Sports stories Stories in rhyme
Supernatural stories Thrillers
Time travel stories Toy books. (Pop-up books and movable books.)
War stories Western stories
Wordless books Young adult stories


Here is a website which might help you locate books of similar genre, but there are many others.

In some school libraries books of various genre are marked with stickers or labels to indicate genre such as fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction etc.




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