Vocabulary. Books and stories Task 1. Answer the questions. 1 What are the people in books called? 2 What is another word for a story in a book? 3 What is the word for a number of books with the same people in it, but different stories? 4 What is the text on the back of a book called? It tells what the book is about. 5 What is a book with real information called? 6 What is the word for a book with a story? 7 Some books continue the story in a previous book. What are they called? 8 The person who writes books.