Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at
1:50 pm

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is mad. The Capitol desires revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this gripping final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
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Suzanne Collins is the author of the bestselling Underland Chronicles series, which started with Gregor the Overlander. In The Hunger Games trilogy, she continues to explore the effects of war and violence on those coming of age. Suzanne lives with her family in Connecticut. You can find her online at www.scholastic.com/hungergames and ww (more…)
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010 at
1:44 pm

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is mad. The Capitol desires revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this gripping final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at
3:28 pm

MOCKINGJAY, the gripping conclusion of THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins.
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at
2:40 pm

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. SignatureReviewed by Megan Whalen TurnerIf there really are only seven original plots in the world, it’s odd that boy meets girl is always mentioned, and the upper classes goes terrible and attacks the good guy never is. Yet we have Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, The House of the Scorpion—and now, following a long tradition of Courageous New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn’t tied her future to a specific date, or weighted it down with too much finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is a gripping tale set in a postapocalyptic world where a replacement for the United States demands a toll from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a televised struggle to the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes th (more…)