The hunger games

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The work The hunger games represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The hunger games

Statement of responsibility

Suzanne Collins

Creator

• trueCollins, Suzanne
• Collins, Suzanne

Subject

• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• Survival skills -- Fiction
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• trueCompetition
• trueContests
• Contests -- Fiction
• Contests -- Fiction
• Contests -- Juvenile fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• trueDystopias
• trueEverdeen, Katniss (Fictitious character)
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueInterpersonal relations
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
• trueNorth America
• Science fiction
• Science fiction
• trueScience fiction
• Science fiction
• trueSisters
• trueSixteen-year-old girls
• trueSurvival
• Survival -- Juvenile fiction
• Survival -- Fiction
• Television programs -- Juvenile fiction
• Television programs -- Fiction
• Television programs -- Fiction
• trueTelevision programs

Genre

• Fiction
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• trueDystopian fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• Juvenile fiction
• trueScience fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death

Member of

• trueHunger Games trilogy
• Hunger Games (Series), 01

Theme

• trueBattle royale

Storyline

• trueAction-packed
• trueWorld-building
• trueCharacter-driven

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueBleak
• trueSuspenseful
• trueMenacing
• trueStrong sense of place

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueDescriptive

Character

• trueStrong female

Award

• Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, 2011.
• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2009
• Amelia Bloomer List, 2009
• Beehive Young Adult Book Award (Utah), 2010.
• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), High School, 2011.
• Blue Hen Book Award (Delaware) for Teen Books, 2010.
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2008
• Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY), Older Reader, 2012.
• California Young Reader Medal, Young Adult, 2011.
• Charlotte Award (New York), Young Adult, 2010.
• Colorado Blue Spruce YA Book Award, 2010.
• Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Rosie Award), 2011.
• Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Fiction (Grades 9-12), 2011.
• Gateway Readers Award (Missouri), 2011.
• Georgia Children's Book Award, 2012.
• Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers, 2010.
• Golden Archer Awards (Wisconsin): Middle/Jr. High, 2011.
• Golden Duck Awards, Hal Clement Award for Young Adult
• Golden Sower Award (Nebraska), Young Adult, 2011.
• Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona), Tween Book Category, 2011.
• Heartland Award, 2010.
• Inky Awards (Australia): Silver Inky, 2009.
• Iowa High School Book Award, 2011.
• Isinglass Teen Read Award (New Hampshire), 2009-2010.
• Kentucky Bluegrass Award for Grades 9-12, 2010.
• Land of Enchantment Book Award (New Mexico), Young Adult category, 2011.
• Maine Student Book Award, 2010.
• New York Times Notable Children's Book, 2008
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, Teen category, 2012.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Young Adult, 2010.
• Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 2011.
• Rhode Island Teen Book Award, 2010.
• Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, 2008.
• School Library Journal Best Books: 2008
• Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma), High School Books, 2011.
• Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma), Intermediate Books, 2011.
• Soaring Eagle Book Award (Wyoming), 2010.
• South Carolina Book Award, Junior Books, 2011.
• South Carolina Book Award, Young Adult Books, 2011.
• Teen Buckeye Book Award (Ohio), 2009.
• Texas Lone Star Reading Lists: 2009
• Thumbs Up! Award (Michigan), 2009.
• Truman Readers Award (Missouri), 2011.
• Virginia Readers' Choice Award for High School, 2011.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2009
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2011
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2009
• Young Hoosier Book Award, Middle Books, 2011.
• Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest), Senior, 2011.
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2008.

Awards note

• 2011 Eliot Rosewater Winner.
• 2011 Young Hoosier Book Award -- Middle Grade.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.C6837

LC item number

Hun 2008

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

810

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 12

Series statement

Hunger games

Series volume

[book 1]

Target audience

adolescent