Reference Nonfiction

- Doesn't have any opinions
- There is not a story
- There is a table of contents
- You don't have to read it cover-to-cover to understand it
- There are no illustrations, but there are photos
- Most of the text is made up of facts, but no opinions
- There is no main character or any characters at all
Literary Nonfiction

- Nonfiction, but it has illustrations
- It has a story, but it has information in it
- It is a true story, but told from a different point of view
- A story about nonfiction topics
- It has a realistic topic based on a true story, so it is still a nonfiction
- It manipulatively gives information about hawks
Biography Nonfiction

- It has illustrations, but it is about real people
- It gives true information while telling a story about a real thing
- It gives information about a true story and the characters are real people in the real story