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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 always mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the good guy never is. Yet we now have Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Your Home with the Scorpion—and now, following an extended tradition of Brave New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her future with a specific date, or weighted it down with too much finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is really a gripping story set in a very postapocalyptic world in which a replacement for that United States demands a tribute from each of the company's territories: two children to get used as gladiators in a televised fight for the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the host to her sister inside Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, jane is entirely centered on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the value of holding onto one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a whole new Theseus, is cold, calculating but still likable. She has got the attributes to become a winner, where Peeta gets the grace to be 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. Hawaii of Panem—which needs to maintain its tributaries subdued and its particular 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 people that don't conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it makes this the correct book at 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 our sentences can finish with the same rise as questions. When Katniss is sent to stylists being made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked in front of them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that I'm no longer self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order to never hate these creatures who are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It's not only the contestants who risk the loss of the humanity. It is perhaps all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not only the Games though the inherent contest for audience approval. Because that is the first book in the series, not it is all totally resolved, and what is left unanswered is the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she's given up to survive, however, not whether or otherwise not the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to find out more.
Megan Whalen Turner is the author of the Newbery Honor book The Thief and it is sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The next book within 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, 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 take part in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation from 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 consider her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son from the town baker who seems to have all of the fighting skills of an 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 as they form alliances and friendships within the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will surely resonate while using generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book considered one of a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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