"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Photo Credit: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767052-the-hunger-games

So, you've only heard of the book, but you've seen the movie.  Great movie!

Why bother reading it now, right?

Nope.  Negative.  Wrong.

Reading The Hunger Games brings the post-apocalyptic story of Katniss and her struggle of survival to new epic proportions.

Truly epic.

You don't get this in the film, but in The Hunger Games, Katniss's story is narrated by herself.  As she finds out things, so do you.  Remember that scene in the movie when Prim's name is announced as the selected tribute and Katniss takes her place?

The movie has nothing on the electricity you feel when reading the pages of The Hunger Games.

My advice?  Go to the Salina Public Library TODAY and read this book if you haven't already.

And then come back for book two (Catching Fire) and book three (Mockingjay).

Once you finish the trilogy, I'm 97.463782% certain you'll want more.

If that's the case, check out this nifty flow-chart designed by the Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, Kansas.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: For you K-State fans out there, I solemnly swear that me featuring a Lawrence-based institution does not suggest any favoritism in the K-State versus KU battle.  I mean comparison.  Remember, I'm from Southern California after all.  Go Trojans!

Thank you for your attention.  This has been a public service announcement.

Photo Credit: Lawrence Public Library's Teen Zone. Hunger Games Read Alikes Flowchart. Web.  30 October 2012. Retrieved from http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2012/10/still-hungry-for-more-books-like-the-hunger-games/

Isn't it beautiful?

There are many more Hunger Games-related flowcharts provided by the Lawrence Public Library.  You can access them here:

http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2012/07/if-you-liked-the-hunger-games-3/

and here:

http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2012/10/still-hungry-for-more-books-like-the-hunger-games/

NOTE: The Lawrence Public Library has never heard of me.  I just really like flowcharts.  And The Hunger Games.  And libraries.  Over and out.




Praise for The Hunger Games

• #1 New York Times bestseller
• YALSA's Teen's Top Ten, 2009
• American Library Association Notable Children's Book
• A Kirkus Best Book of 2008
• School Library Journal's Best Books of 2008

See The Hunger Games in Salina Public Library's catalog:

• The Hunger Games in book format
• The Hunger Games in audiobook format (CD)
• The Hunger Games in audiobook format (Playaway)
• The Hunger Games in electronic audiobook format (electronic resource on Sunflower eLibrary)

See The Hunger Games on Goodreads.com

itstriciaa.  (2011, May 5).  The Hunger Games Book Trailer Project [Video File].  Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HnwvVZBl8M


Collins, Suzanne.  The Hunger Games.  New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.  Print.  ISBN-9780439023481; hardback; USD $17.99.