Fabulous Finds: The Hunger Games

Okay so technically this is not a Fabulous Find. It's actually a Fabulous Reread but still it's incredible enough to get a post on my blog. The Hunger Games is written by Suzanne Collins who also wrote an awesome series for children known as Gregor the Overlander. It's a good one too! (Tidbit of information: I recently found out that Suzanne Collins also wrote for the television show "Little Bear". What!? Crazy.)

Amazon.com gives the following description for Suzanne's fabulous book:

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games," a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.

This is my book review for The Hunger Games:

The story details the life of a teenage girl named Katniss. She lives in a desolate community known simply as District 12. The day she fears every year has come, The Reaping which is a time when the people of each district come together to watch as one teenage girl and one teenage boy is chosen to fight to the death in an annual "festival" called The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are a direct result of a war fought many years ago between the districts and the Capitol. When the districts lost the war, The Hunger Games was born as punishment for their rebellion. During this particular reaping, Katniss' worst fear is confirmed as her little sister is chosen as tribute. Bravely Katniss volunteers to take her place.
Katniss and Peeta (the boy tribute) are whisked away to the Captiol where they train before being placed in the arena where they will be expected to fight 22 other tributes from Districts 1-11. The storyline follows Katniss very closely and we get to see how suspicious she is of other people and how she comes to protect and love others.

The Hunger Games and another fabulous find of mine are very closely related, Divergent. Both of these books are very near and dear to my heart and I was thrilled to see The Hunger Games on the big screen. I'm equally excited to know that Divergent is also being made into a movie! As a classroom teacher, I can see Language Arts classes reading both books and comparing the two. Since they are both (soon-to-be) motion pictures, that could be another type of comparison as well. I highly recommend this series to almost everyone I come across. LOVE IT!!!!

Happy Reading!!
-CM (just purchased "The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks" by E. Lockhart)