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Starred Review. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there really are just seven original plots inside world, it's odd that boy meets girl is usually mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the great guy never is. Yet we now have Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, The Home with the Scorpion—and now, following a lengthy tradition of Brave New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her future to your specific date, or weighted it down with a lot of finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers can be a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world in which a replacement to the Usa demands a tribute from each of the company's territories: two children to be used as gladiators inside a televised fight for the death.Katniss, from that which was once Appalachia, offers to adopt the host to her sister inside Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the significance 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 and still likable. She gets the attributes to get a winner, where Peeta has got the grace to get a good loser.It's no accident that 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 hold its tributaries subdued and its particular citizens complacent—may have came up with Games, but mindless television could be 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 correct book on the right time. What happens as we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be obsessed with grooming, we'll talk funny, and our sentences can finish using the same rise as questions. When Katniss is distributed to stylists to be made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked in front of them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that we are no longer self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order not to hate these creatures that are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It's not just the contestants who risk the loss of the humanity. It is who watch. Katniss struggles to win not just the Games though the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this can be the first book in a series, not everything is resolved, and what is left unanswered will be the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she has given as much as survive, although not if the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to find out more.
Megan Whalen Turner may be the author from the Newbery Honor book The Thief and it is sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The next book inside the series will probably 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 necessary to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected since the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to look at her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son from the town baker who seems to own all of the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will probably be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives that have trained because of this their whole lives. Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic while they form alliances and friendships within the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will definitely resonate while using generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book among a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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