Suzanne Collins

by Elizabeth Hoover

Writer Suzanne Collins was forty-six when she published The Hunger Games, a novel for young adults set in a dark future where North America has been obliterated by war and climate change. The residents of Collins's dystopia are forced to send their children to fight to the death in a sadistic game created by the government. The book wrestles with meaty themes: the effect of war, the dangers of voyeurism in popular culture, and how governments use...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420507621
• ISBN13: 9781420507621
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Lucent Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10