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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 always mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the good guy never is. Yet we've 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 your specific date, or weighted it down with a lot of finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is really a gripping story set in a very postapocalyptic world the place where a replacement for the United states of america demands a tribute from each of the company's 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 look at the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she actually is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the value 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 whole new Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable. She gets the attributes to become a winner, where Peeta has got the grace to become a great 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 its particular citizens complacent—may have came up with Games, but mindless television may be the real danger, the means through which society pacifies its citizens and punishes those who fail to 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 our sentences will end with all the same rise as questions. When Katniss is shipped 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 to never hate these creatures who're sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It isn't exactly the contestants who risk the loss of these humanity. It is perhaps all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not just the Games though the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this is the first book in a very series, not things are resolved, and what is left unanswered could be the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We understand what she's got given up to survive, but not perhaps the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to understand more.
Megan Whalen Turner will be the author from the Newbery Honor book The Thief and its 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 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 participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation with the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem since the 24 participants are made to eliminate their competitors, literally, wonderful 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 adopt her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son in the town baker who seems to have all the fighting skills of the lump of bread dough, will likely be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained just for 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 certainly 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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