Tag: survival

  • The Dog Stars

      By Peter Heller I found this book to be extremely moving.  While the story is both grim and bleak, it is also wondrously hopeful and beautifully written. The story is about love, courage, and finding one’s home.  It is written from the main character, Hig’s, perspective in short segments.  While the first part of…

  • Mockingjay

    By Suzanne Collins Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Scholastic Press, 2010 Genres: Science fiction, adventure, dystopian, thriller Series: The Hunger Games; 3 ISBN: 9780439023511 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 392 Setting: Panem – mainly District 13 & the Capitol, but also Districts 12, 8, and 2 Time period: Sometime in the future Plot…

  • Catching Fire

    By Suzanne Collins Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Scholastic Press, 2009 Genres: Science fiction, adventure, dystopian, thriller Series: The Hunger Games; 2 ISBN: 9780439023498 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 391 Setting: Panem – mainly District 12 & the Capitol Time period: Sometime in the future Plot summary: When Katniss returns to District 12…

  • The Hunger Games

    By Suzanne Collins Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Scholastic Inc., c2008, 2009 Genres: Science fiction, adventure, dystopian, thriller Series: The Hunger Games; 1 ISBN: 9780439023528 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 374 Setting: District 12 & the Capitol, Panem Time period: Sometime in the future – after “the Dark Days, the uprising of…