Controversial Literature for Young Adults: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Title: Catching Fire

Author: Suzanne Collins

Publish Date: September 2009

Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.

Pages: 400pp

ISBN: 0439023491

Classification: Fiction

Genre: Urban Fantasy/Supernatural

Age Range: 12 and up

Price: $17.99

Amazon: $10.52

Annotation: After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are back in District 12, planning a wedding, and facing rumors of a rebellion.

Summary: The second installment of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games sweeps you right back into that iron grip of the Capitol, a totalitarian government that has become angry and seeks retribution. Victor's Katniss and Peeta find themselves facing rumors of a rebellion, an inevitable circumstance after reading about their haunting participation in the games. In the interim, Katniss struggles with her love interest between Gale and Peeta--not really having time to discover what her true feelings are.

PLEASE BE ADVISED: Do not even think about starting this book until you have read THE HUNGER GAMES. This is a masterful journey of terror, love and loss.

Evaluation: I literally could not put this book down. Suzanne Collins enhances the sequel to The Hunger Games by capturing the same dark edge and intensifying jaw-dropping lure. I have to say, the ending KILLED me in that you are pretty much left hanging, and there is nothing you can do but wait till August 23th.

Bibliotherapeutic Usefulness:

Having feelings for more then one person.
Struggling to protect the ones you love.
Not knowing how you feel about someone, romantically.

Reason this book was chosen: After reading The Hunger Games, I had absolutely no choice but to read the highly anticipated sequel. This story is violent and dark and definitely frightening to think about—how could anyone pass this up?! Currently dying for the Mocking Jay due out August 23, 2010.

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Series: The Hunger Games Series
The Hunger Games (2008)
Catching Fire (2009)

Mockingjay (August 24, 2010)

Awards:

ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2010
Locus Recommended Reading (Young Adult Book), 2010

Nancy Garden, author of Annie on my Mind, on learning that her book had been burned in Kansas City.

"Of course adults want to protect [young people] from bad things! My partner and I helped bring up a pair of teens and we wanted to protect them from everything hurtful in the world; it's a natural impulse for most adults. But it's also important to prepare teens for the world they'll meet as adults, and to help them understand it and form their own reactions to it. One can't do that by keeping the world from them. Far better for them to encounter difficult subjects when they still have loving adults—like their parents and teachers and librarians—to talk to than to keep them so sheltered that they know nothing of the world until they're thrust into it as independent kids in their 20s."

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