The Dystopian Thriller That Changed YA
Suzanne Collins understood exactly how to fuse page-turning survival drama with a sharper political story about power, spectacle and resistance. Even now, The Hunger Games feels urgent, propulsive and hugely readable.
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The Dystopian Thriller That Changed YA
Suzanne Collins understood exactly how to fuse page-turning survival drama with a sharper political story about power, spectacle and resistance. Even now, The Hunger Games feels urgent, propulsive and hugely readable.
- Book Synopsis
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The first book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games trilogy. 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. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.
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.
Three books, four films and one worldwide phenomenon, The Hunger Games changed the face of global YA.
All three of the original Hunger Games novels have been made into major feature films, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.
The best-selling prequel to The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is now a major feature film and available to watch on streaming platforms.
Praise for The Hunger Games:
"A violent, jarring, speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense. . . . I couldn't stop reading." — Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
"I was so obsessed with this book. . . . The Hunger Games is amazing." — Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga
"Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced." — John Green, The New York Times Book Review
Ideal for readers who:
- Will tear through dystopian YA with survival stakes, political tension and relentless pace
- Are curious about the novel that reshaped the modern teen dystopian genre
- Admire heroines whose instinct to survive never comes at the expense of heart
- Are after a gripping, high-stakes and impossible-to-put-down read
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781407132082
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Scholastic, (01 December 2011)
- Number of Pages
- 435
- Weight
- 320 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 34 x 128 x 194 mm
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