Divergent

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The work Divergent represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dunkirk Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Divergent

Statement of responsibility

Veronica Roth

Creator

• trueRoth, Veronica
• Roth, Veronica
• Roth, Veronica

Subject

• Social classes -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSocial classes
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• trueChicago, Illinois
• trueCourage
• Courage -- Juvenile fiction
• Courage -- Juvenile fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• trueDystopias
• trueFamilies
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
• Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
• trueOptions, alternatives, choices
• truePrior, Tris (Fictitious character)
• Science fiction
• Science fiction
• trueSixteen-year-old girls
• trueScience fiction
• Young adult fiction
• trueTeenage girls
• Social classes -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Young adult fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• trueDystopian fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueScience fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all

Member of

• trueDivergent trilogy
• Divergent series ;, 01
• Divergent series, 01

Storyline

• trueIntricately plotted
• trueWorld-building

Tone

• trueBleak
• trueSuspenseful

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Character

• trueCourageous

Award

• Amelia Bloomer List, 2012
• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), High School, 2013.
• California Young Reader Medal, Young Adult, 2014.
• Colorado Blue Spruce YA Book Award, 2014.
• Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Rosie Award), 2014.
• Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Fiction (Grades 9-12), 2014.
• Gateway Readers Award (Missouri), 2014.
• Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers, 2013.
• Goodreads Choice Award, 2011.
• Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona), Teen Book Category, 2014.
• Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan), Grades 9-12, 2013.
• Iowa High School Book Award, 2014.
• Isinglass Teen Read Award (New Hampshire), 2012-2013.
• Kentucky Bluegrass Award for Grades 9-12, 2013.
• Land of Enchantment Book Award (New Mexico), Young Adult category, 2014.
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, Teen category, 2014.
• Rhode Island Teen Book Award, 2013.
• Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, 2011.
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2011.
• Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma), High School Books, 2014.
• Soaring Eagle Book Award (Wyoming), 2013.
• South Carolina Book Award, Young Adult Books, 2014.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2012
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2015.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2012
• Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest), Senior, 2014.

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Intended audience

HL 700

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7

LC item number

.R7375 Di 2012

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

700

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Series statement

Divergent trilogy

Series volume

0001

Target audience

adolescent