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  2. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

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    Myron's best seller about the resident cat at the Spencer Public Library in Iowa has been adapted for middle grade readers. The references to most of the author's personal problems, which peppered her adult book, have been removed, and Dewey's story stands on its own... astute readers will also pick up on the message that a town's heart beats ...

  3. Literary realism - Wikipedia

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    It included realistic – sometimes sordid or violent – depictions of contemporary everyday life, especially the life of the lower classes. In France in addition to melodramas , popular and bourgeois theater in the mid-century turned to realism in the "well-made" bourgeois farces of Eugène Marin Labiche and the moral dramas of Émile Augier .

  4. Docufiction - Wikipedia

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    Docufiction (or docu-fiction) is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film. It is a film genre [ 1 ] which attempts to capture reality such as it is (as direct cinema or cinéma vérité ) and which simultaneously introduces unreal elements or fictional situations in narrative in order to ...

  5. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Wikipedia

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    The Miraculous Journey won the 2006 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for children's fiction [4] and a Parents' Choice Award for Spring 2006 fiction. [5] It was a Quill Awards finalist in the children's chapter book category. [6] In 2007 the U.S. National Education Association named it one of "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on an ...

  6. Literary fiction - Wikipedia

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    Literary fiction is commonly regarded as artistically superior to genre fiction, the latter being a form of commercial fiction written to provide entertainment to a mass audience. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Some categories of literary fiction, such as historical fiction , magic realism , autobiographical novels , or encyclopedic novels , are sometimes ...

  7. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    Teachers should model these types of questions through "think-alouds" before, during, and after reading a text. When a student can relate a passage to an experience, another book, or other facts about the world, they are "making a connection". Making connections help students understand the author's purpose and fiction or non-fiction story. [33]

  8. Adventure fiction - Wikipedia

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    Adventure fiction often overlaps with other genres, notably war novels, crime novels, detective novels, sea stories, Robinsonades, spy stories (as in the works of John Buchan, Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming), science fiction, fantasy, (Robert E. Howard and J. R. R. Tolkien both combined the secondary world story with the adventure novel) [7] and ...

  9. Fiction - Wikipedia

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    Fiction writing is the process by which an author or creator produces a fictional work. Some elements of the writing process may be planned in advance, while others may come about spontaneously. Fiction writers use different writing styles and have distinct writers' voices when writing fictional stories. [38]