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Starred Review. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there really are just seven original plots within the world, it's odd that boy meets girl is usually mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the good guy never is. Yet we have Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Your Home from the Scorpion—and now, following a long tradition of Brave New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her future to a specific date, or weighted it down with an excessive amount of finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is really a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world when a replacement for that United States demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a very televised fight for the death.Katniss, from that which was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she actually is entirely dedicated to survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding on one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating yet still likable. She has got the attributes to become a winner, where Peeta has got the grace to get a great loser.It's no accident these games are presented as pop culture. Every generation projects its fear: runaway science, communism, overpopulation, nuclear wars and, now, reality TV. the State of Panem—which needs to maintain its tributaries subdued and its particular citizens complacent—may have created the Games, but mindless television is the real danger, the means where society pacifies its citizens and punishes people who neglect to conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it makes this the best book at the right time. What happens when we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be enthusiastic about grooming, we'll talk funny, and our sentences will end while using same rise as questions. When Katniss is sent to stylists to be made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked before them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that we are you can forget self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order not to hate these creatures who are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It's not just the contestants who risk the loss with their humanity. It is all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not merely the Games though the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this is the first book in a very series, not everything is resolved, and what's left unanswered will be the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know very well what she's got given up to survive, however, not if the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to find out more.
Megan Whalen Turner will be the author with the Newbery Honor book The Thief and its particular sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The next book inside the series will likely be published by Greenwillow in 2010.
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Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the Usa of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to become replaced by Panem, a country divided to the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to be involved in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are made to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all of citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected since the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to consider her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son from the town baker who seems to have every among the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, is planning to be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who've trained for this their whole lives. Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic because they form alliances and friendships inside face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will certainly resonate while using generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book certainly one of a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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