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Personal Rating: 5 Stars BookClub Rating: 4.8 Stars Pub. Date: October 2008 Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. Format: Hardcover , 374pp Age Range: Young Adult Series: Hunger Games Series , #1 ISBN-13: 9780439023481 The story of the Hunger Games is an amazing tale. The time is sometime in the distant future, the place is Panem, what we now call North America but is no more. Thi s is the story of Katniss Everdeen and the people who surround her and bec ome a part of her life. In first person, we dive into the thoughts of this 16 year old girl and we are not disappointed. The Hunger games happen once a year where each of the 12 districts of Panem hold a lottery to choose one girl and one boy to fight for food and provisions for their poor district. The games are televised and the basis of the games is reminiscent of the Running Man (where the players are children). This book is labeled a young adult science fiction novel but it is so much more than this. I can't imagine one person I...

Rating: 2/5 Stars Pub. Date: March 1998 Publisher: HarperCollins Publisher Format: Mass Market Paperback , 304p Age Range: Young Adult ISBN: 0380729407 A carnival comes into town late one evening in October and two local boys, Jim and Will, are pulled into the mysterious nature of this carnival and they end up deeper into the mysteries then they ever thought they would go. I loved the premise of the story and had such high hopes for this classic but it just fell a bit short for me. I didn't care much for the writing style so I think that's what really made me not enjoy it as much. It just didn't live up to the hype for me. This book fits the following Challenges for me: Hogwarts Reading Challenge 2011 A-Z 2011 Alphabet Challenge What's in a Name Challenge New Author Challenge PBT February Category : Science Fiction