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Starred Review. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there really are merely seven original plots inside the world, it's odd that boy meets girl is usually mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the great guy never is. Yet we have Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Your Home with the Scorpion—and now, following a lengthy tradition of Brave New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her future to some specific date, or weighted it down with an excessive amount of finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is often a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world in which a replacement to the United states of america demands a tribute from each of their territories: two children to get used as gladiators in a very televised fight to the death.Katniss, from the thing that was once Appalachia, offers to consider the host to her sister within the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she's entirely dedicated to survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding on to 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 got the attributes being a winner, where Peeta gets the grace to become a fantastic 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. Hawaii of Panem—which needs to keep its tributaries subdued and its particular citizens complacent—may have come up with Games, but mindless television may be the real danger, the means where society pacifies its citizens and punishes those that don't conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it makes this the best book with the right time. What happens when we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be obsessed with grooming, we'll talk funny, and all sorts of our sentences can easily using the same rise as questions. When Katniss is distributed to stylists being made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked facing them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that we're 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 who're sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It's not the contestants who risk the loss of these humanity. It is who watch. Katniss struggles to win not just the Games nevertheless the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this can be the first book in a very series, not it is all totally resolved, and what's left unanswered may be the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know adequately what she's given around survive, but not if the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to understand more.
Megan Whalen Turner could be the author of the Newbery Honor book The Thief and its sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The next book in the series will likely 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, to get replaced by Panem, a country divided in to the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate 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 expected to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all 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 get all the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will likely be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives that have trained with 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 definitely resonate with all the 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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