The Hunger Games

Written by Suzanne Collins

Scholastic 2008

384 pages

Fantasy

                                  The Hunger Games  is a story that takes place in what used to be North America. There are twelve outlying districts around the capitol in Panem. The districts once went to war with the capitol and were defeated. Because of that defeat each district must send a girl and a boy to represent their district and fight to the death on television.

                                   There are no illustrations in this book. This is a book for more advanced readers in about eighth or ninth grade. On some websites it says the book is appropriate for children 12 and up, but in my opinion this book should not be read before 13 or 14 years old.

                                    This book could be helpful in the classroom when talking about things such as government in our country and how a government could be. Students could also design a better alternative that fighting to the death every year and get them to draw a picture of it as well. The teacher could also work on students' vocabulary by pulling words from the text and doing activities with those.