The Hunger Games

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The work The Hunger Games represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). 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

Subject

• Reality television programs
• Survival
• Survival -- Juvenile fiction
• trueEverdeen, Katniss (Fictitious character)
• Novels
• Young adult fiction
• Dystopias
• Interpersonal relations
• trueSixteen-year-old girls
• Contests -- Fiction
• Science fiction
• trueScience fiction
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• Survival -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
• trueInterpersonal relations
• trueCompetition
• Contests -- Juvenile fiction
• Science fiction
• trueSurvival
• Television programs -- Fiction
• trueScience fiction
• Action and adventure fiction
• trueSisters
• Young adult works
• Apocalyptic fiction
• Dystopian fiction
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• Apocalyptic fiction
• Large type books
• trueDystopias
• Dystopian fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• trueTelevision programs
• Juvenile works
• Action and adventure fiction
• Reality television programs -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• Interpersonal relations. -- Fiction
• Novels
• trueContests
• trueNorth America
• trueBooks to movies
• Contests

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Novels
• Action and adventure fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueScience fiction
• trueApocalyptic fiction
• Dystopias
• trueFirst person narratives
• Young adult fiction
• trueBooks to movies
• Young adult works
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueDystopian 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), bk. 1
• Hunger Games (Novel)

Theme

• trueBattle royale

Storyline

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

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueBleak
• trueSuspenseful
• trueStrong sense of place
• trueMenacing

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.

Cataloging source

IZ8

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Interest level

• MG+
• MG+

LC call number

PS3603 O4558

LC item number

H864 2012

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

810

Literary form

novels

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

• 7
• 12

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Reading level

• 5.3
• 5.3

Series statement

The hunger games trilogy

Series volume

bk. 1]

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

juvenile