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Divergent
Hardcover, 487 pages, Harpercollins Children's Books, List Price: $17.99 | purchase
Book 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.
This book is about:
- Courage,
- Social classes,
- Families,
- Identity,
- Science fiction,
- Fiction
NPR stories about Divergent
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In a market saturated with dystopian worlds, this debut novel stands ahead of the pack. The society of Veronica Roth's futuristic Chicago has been divided into five factions, each representing a different virtue: honesty, selflessness, intelligence, peacefulness and bravery. At the age of 16, each member must choose a faction, and our narrator, Beatrice, faces a near impossible decision from the start: stay with her family or dare to be herself. Her choice lands her in an initiation process... more
—Marissa Meyer
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