The maze runner

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Label

The maze runner

Statement of responsibility

James Dashner

Creator

• trueDashner, James, 1972-
• Dashner, James, 1972-

Author

• Dashner, James, 1972-

Subject

• Amnesia -- Fiction
• Amnesia -- Juvenile fiction
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• trueCooperation
• Cooperativeness -- Fiction
• Cooperativeness -- Juvenile fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• trueDystopias
• trueLabyrinths
• Labyrinths -- Fiction
• Labyrinths -- Juvenile fiction
• trueScience -- Experiments
• trueScience fiction
• Science fiction
• trueSixteen-year-old boys
• Science fiction
• Young adult fiction
• trueTeenagers with amnesia
• trueTeenage boys
• trueAmnesia

Genre

• Fiction
• trueScience fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• trueDystopian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape

Member of

• trueMaze runner trilogy
• Maze runner series, 01

Theme

• trueBattle royale
• truePandemic apocalypse

Storyline

• truePlot-driven

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueBleak
• trueSuspenseful

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Award

• Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, 2012.
• Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY), Older Reader, 2015.
• Charlotte Award (New York), Young Adult, 2012.
• Delaware Diamonds (book award), Middle School, 2015.
• Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Fiction (Grades 6-8), 2012.
• Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers, 2012.
• Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona), Tween Book Category, 2012.
• Isinglass Teen Read Award (New Hampshire), 2010-2011.
• Kentucky Bluegrass Award for Grades 9-12, 2011.
• Truman Readers Award (Missouri), 2012.
• West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA), Older Readers, 2015.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2011
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2011
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011

Awards note

• Eliot Rosewater Nominee, 2011-2012.
• A Junior Library Guide Selection

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 770
• HL 770

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.D2587

LC item number

Maz 2009

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

770

Literary form

fiction

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

• 6
• 10

Series statement

Maze runner series

Series volume

[book 1]

Target audience

adolescent