S5 - TYPES OF STORY

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo is set during World War I. Albert's father sells his horse Joey to the army and he goes into battle in France.

• Romantic novel

• Historical Novel

• Poetry

• Science fiction

• Travel literature

In Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman, Sephy is a cross and Callum is a nought. They fall in love, but in their world, noughts and crosses shouldn't be friends. Like Romeo and Juliet, their love is forbidden.

• Science fiction

• Poetry

• Autobiography

• Romantic novel

• Historical Novel

Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems by Mel Glenn. Through a series of poems we get to know the members of a school basketball team.

• Poetry

• Science fiction

• Romantic novel

• Horror story

• Travel literature

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a future world where books are not allowed. All books are burnt by 'firemen' whose job it is to start fires.

• Horror story

• Travel literature

• Science fiction

• Romantic novel

The Boy Who Biked the World is by a cyclist, Alastair Humphreys, who completed a cycle trip round the world in four years. The story follows a boy's cycle trip through Europe and all the way through Africa.

• Science fiction

• Poetry

• Travel literature

• Historical Novel

Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl is about the author's childhood in Norway and his time at an English boarding school.

• Autobiography

• Horror story

• Short stories

• Crime novel

• Plot

Haunted by R.L. Stine is about a girl who is visited by a ghost from the future. Together they try to stop the death of a boy from occurring. Sometimes it's quite scary.

• Travel literature

• Autobiography

• Crime novel

• Short stories

• Horror story

1. Whodunit? Detective Stories, chosen by Philip Pullman, is a collection of detective stories by famous authors.

• Crime novel

• Short stories

• Plot

• Science fiction

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd. Ted and Kat's cousin Salim gets on the London Eye. He never gets off again. Ted and Kat follow the clues across London to help the police to find their cousin.

• Crime novel

• Short stories

• Horror story

• Autobiography

The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

• Setting

• Characters

• Ending

• Plot

• Villain