The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Scholastic, 2008
The Hunger Games is the first book of the dystopian trilogy, The Hunger Games, followed by Catching Fire and Mockingjay. The series combines the political statement of 1984 with the dangerous societal games of The Running Man, using teenagers as main characters. While the YA target audience is middle and high school, I did suggest this first book to a few 5th graders already reading middle school books. Before long, most of the 5th and 4th grade faculty had read the trilogy.
Level: 6th - adult
