Divergent by Veronica Roth

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“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.” 

-Veronica Roth, Divergent

In Divergent, we discover a world in which young adults have a difficult choice to make at age 16.  There are five factions, the sixteen year olds must choose between; Amity or peace, Candor or honesty, Edudite or knowledge, Dauntless or bravery and Abnegation or Selflessness. And yet there is another group, one that is not recognized by the government and in fact is destroyed when discovered. This group is called Divergent. These are the people that display high levels of traits from two or more factions. Our main character, Tris is divergent and the book is written from her perspective.

I don't know about you but I think it would have been impossible for me to choose at age 16 which faction I would fit best with. I just wouldn't know myself that well. 

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The Testing By Joelle Charbonneau

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“Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.” -Joelle Charbonneau, The Testing

The Testing is a dystopian novel set in a world where there was a war with seven stages. These seven stages left the world a mess, and contaminated. The ancestors of the people in this book had to fix their world and they are still trying to do so in the time period of this book.  Students graduate and when they do many hope to be chosen for the Testing which if passed will mean going on to attend the University in Tosu City and become the new world leaders, scientists, professors, etc. Malencia Vale is chosen for this Testing along with three other students from the same town. But when her father shares his fears with her, she finds that maybe the Testing and University isn't what she wanted. Unable to do anything but attend the Testing, Malencia soon finds that the punishments for failing are worse than the disappointment of failing and being reassigned to another colony.  

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