The Hunger Games #2: Catching Fire Award-winning by Suzanne Collins (author)

Author/Illustrator

Suzanne Collins

Bestselling author Suzanne Collins first made her mark in children’s literature with the New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles series for middle grade readers. Her debut for readers aged 12 and up, The Hunger Games immediately became a New York Times bestseller, appealing to both teen readers and adults. It was called “addictive” by Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly, and “amazing” by Stephenie Meyer on her website, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2008 and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.

Catching Fire, the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy, debuted at #1 on the USA Today bestseller list and simultaneously appeared at #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. It was named a Time Magazine Top Ten Fiction Book of 2009, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a People Magazine (Top 10)Best Book of 2009. Mockingjay, the thrilling final installment in trilogy, was published to worldwide acclaim in 2010.

Foreign rights for The Hunger Games and its sequels have been sold in over 39 countries to date. In April 2010, Suzanne Collins was named to the TIME 100 list of “the world’s most influential people.” Lionsgate will release The Hunger Games movie in March 2012, with Oscar-nominated Jennifer Lawrence starring as Katniss.

Suzanne has also had a successful and prolific career writing for children’s television. She has worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains It All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. She received a Writers Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically acclaimed Santa, Baby!

Suzanne Collins lives with her family in Connecticut.

Reviews

1. Niamh, Book Club Review Team
   on 31 March 2011

   Horror, drama and romance!

   The Hunger Games Trilogy is an amazing series filled with horror, drama and romance.
   This book is amazing and it is very moving, at one point of it I was brought to tears. It has great description to help you imagine the situation and how the characters feel. There are parts of the book where you can cleary tell what is happening and there are loads of cliff hangers which add great suspense. Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading because it is a very fun book to read and when you finish the trilogy you wish that there was more.

2. Dave, Scholastic Staff
   on 1 March 2011

   You'll be hooked!

   A genuinely exciting, page-turning, can’t-wait-to-see-what-happens-next series, set in a vividly described post-apocalyptic world where children fight to the death in the ultimate gameshow. The story centres around Katniss Everdeen, who must rely on her skill and guile as she fights to the death to beat the regime that threw her into this violent, bloody world. Packed with intrigue, excitement and a tinge of romance, you’ll be hooked from the first page of the first book to the end of the third.

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What kids think

1. katyannie94
   on 7 March 2014

   the second enstallment of the Hunger Games trilogy. Made me hate President snow even more . Katniss’s chances of surviving are getting slimmer.

   4 out of 5

2. niceee
   on 26 December 2013

   I love love this book when I started reading these I was so addicted now it’s one of my favourite books* I love you katniss

   5 out of 5

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