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Catching fire [LP]

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

Main Author: Collins, Suzanne.
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009.
Series: Hunger Games (Series) ; 2.
Subjects:
Insurgency > Young adult fiction.
Survival > Young adult fiction.
Television programs > Young adult fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Young adult fiction.
Contests > Young adult fiction.
Dystopian fiction > Young adult.
Science fiction > Young adult.
Large print books.
Summary: By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Physical Description: 499 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN: 9781410420442
1410420442
9781594135859
1594135851
Author Notes: Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Indiana University with a double major in Drama and Telecommunications. Collins went on to receive an M.F.A. from New York University in dramatic writing. Since 1991, she has been a writer for children's television shows. She has worked on the staffs of several shows including Clarissa Explains it All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear and Oswald. She also co-wrote the Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Santa, Baby! and was the head writer for Scholastic Entertainment's Clifford's Puppy Days. Her books include When Charlie McButton Lost Power, The Underland Chronicles, and the Hunger Games Trilogy. Book one of this trilogy, The Hunger Games, became a major motion picture in 2012 with Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence portraying the main character of Katniss Everdeen. Catching Fire, book 2 of the trilogy, became a major motion picture in 2013. Mockingjay - Part One was released as a film in 2014 and Part Two in 2015.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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