Divergent

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The work Divergent represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System. 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

Subject

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

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueScience fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueBooks to movies
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueDystopian 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 anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all

Member of

• trueDivergent trilogy

Storyline

• trueWorld-building
• trueIntricately plotted

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

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• HL
• 700

Intended audience source

Lexile

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