LoveReading4Kids Says
The Hunger Games is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. In a dark vision of the near future, The Hunger Games is set in the ruins of a place once known as North America. The cruel Capitol keeps order in its twelve outlying districts by forcing them each to send one boy and girl to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a terrifying reality TV show broadcasting a live fight to the death. Without really meaning to, 16 year old Katniss becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever.
Books in The Hunger Games Series:
1. The Hunger Games
2. Catching Fire
3. Mockingjay
4. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Chosen by our Guest Editor for October 2023, Jennifer Killick, as one of her must-reads: "The premise of The Hunger Games is so perfectly awful and intriguing, and the writing so clever and beautiful that I really think everyone who doesn’t read it is missing out."
Chosen by our Guest Editor, Jacqueline Wilson, as one of her must reads, February 2012: "I don't usually go for blockbuster dystopian stories - but this trilogy is imaginatively conceived and well written and a genuine page-turner. Sixteen year old Katniss takes part in a terrifying annual televised game where teenagers fight for their lives. In our current climate of reality television shows like The X-Factor and I'm a Celebrity, Get me out of Here, this starts to ring horribly true. It's often disturbing, but it certainly will hold the attention of even the most reluctant reader. It's about to be a much-hyped film, so should attract even more attention."
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The Hunger Games Synopsis
With brand new artwork by Freya Betts: this is a must-have
collectors edition for all fans of this groundbreaking, phenomenally
bestselling series.
The first book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games
trilogy.
"I was so obsessed with this book. . . . The Hunger
Games is amazing." Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga
"I couldn't stop reading." Stephen King, Entertainment
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There is only one rule: kill or be killed.
Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality
TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced
to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games.
When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her
younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence.
But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival
is second nature.
- All four Hunger Games books have been made into feature
films, the first three starring Jennifer Lawence, Liam Hemsworth,
Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks and Donald Sutherland.
- The fourth movie of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,
is released November 2023 and has an all-star cast including
Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage.
ABOUT THE NEW COVERS
To
celebrate the release of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
feature film, Freya Betts has taken the four iconic logos and added
a modern twist.
Freya is a UK based freelance illustrator
who focuses on hyper-realistic portraiture, mainly in the medium
of digital painting. She has worked predominantly in the film
industry - her journey beginning with an apprenticeship at age 18,
art-working film campaigns for Universal and Paramount in London.
Now she finds herself illustrating film posters for Disney
and Marvel, her work has appeared everywhere from giant murals
in New York to t-shirts in H&M. Clients include: Disney, Netflix,
Marvel, Apple TV, Uber, Royal Mail, The LA Times
About This Edition
ISBN: |
9780702332982 |
Publication date: |
26th October 2023 |
Author: |
Suzanne Collins |
Publisher: |
Scholastic |
Format: |
Hardback |
Pagination: |
448 pages |