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Starred Review. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there really are only seven original plots in the world, it's odd that boy meets girl is definitely mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the great guy never is. Yet we have Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Your Home from 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 too much finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is a gripping story set in the postapocalyptic world when a replacement for your United States demands a tribute from each of the company's territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a very televised fight on the death.Katniss, from that which was once Appalachia, offers to look at the place of her sister inside the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely dedicated to survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the value 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 has the attributes to become a winner, where Peeta gets the grace being an excellent 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. Hawaii of Panem—which needs to keep its tributaries subdued and it is citizens complacent—may have come up with Games, but mindless television could be the real danger, the means where society pacifies its citizens and punishes those who don't conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it can make this the proper book at the right time. What happens if we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be obsessive about grooming, we'll talk funny, and many types of our sentences will end with the same rise as questions. When Katniss is shipped to stylists to get made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked before 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 never to hate these creatures who're sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It's not only 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 that is the first book inside a series, not it is all totally resolved, and what is left unanswered may be the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know perfectly what she gets given approximately survive, although not whether or not the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to master more.
Megan Whalen Turner will be the author with the Newbery Honor book The Thief and its sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The following book inside series will probably be published by Greenwillow in 2010.
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Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, being replaced by Panem, a country divided in the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to engage in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation from the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem since the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, effortlessly citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected because the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to look at her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all of the fighting skills of your lump of bread dough, is planning to be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives that have trained because of this their whole lives. Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic because they form alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will surely resonate using the generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book one of a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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