Last week, young adult author Maureen Johnson posted a challenge on Twitter: take a book and redesign the cover by switching the gender of the author. For example, what would the cover of Trackers look like if it were written by one “Patricia Carman” rather than Patrick Carman? Or how might the cover of The Scorpions of Zahir change if Christopher – not Christine – Brodien-Jones were the author?
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By Veronica Roth.
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.
