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Catching Fire

85.7% complete
2009
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See 6
Part I - "THE SPARK"
Chapters 1-9
Part II - "THE QUELL"
Chapters 10-18
Part III - "THE ENEMY"
Chapters 19-27
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 The Hunger Games*
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The Hunger Games*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of distopian science fiction by Suzanne Collins geared mostly to the teen and young adult audience.

1) The Hunger Games
2) Catching Fire
3) Mockingjay
Copyright © 2009 by Suzanne Collins
For my parents,
Jane and Michael Collins,

and my parents-in-law,
Dixie and Charles Pryor
I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air.
May contain spoilers
"Katniss, there is no District Twelve."
No comments on file
Synopsis not on file
Extract (may contain spoilers)
I bite my lip. My instinct tells me they’re telling the truth. And behind that truth is a whole lot of information I’d like to get. I step forward and retrieve Twill’s gun before lowering my bow, though. Then I hesitate a moment, thinking of another day in this woods, when Gale and I watched a hovercraft appear out of thin air and capture two escapees from the Capitol. The boy was speared and killed. The redheaded girl, I found out when I went to the Capitol, was mutilated and turned into a mute servant called an Avox. “Anyone after you?”

“We don’t think so. We think they believe we were killed in a factory explosion,” says Twill. “Only a fluke that we weren’t.”

“All right, let’s go inside,” I say, nodding at the cement house. I follow them in, carrying the gun.

Bonnie makes straight for the hearth and lowers herself onto a Peacekeeper’s cloak that has been spread before it. She holds her hands to the feeble flame that burns on one end of a charred log. Her skin is so pale as to be translucent and I can see the fire glow through her flesh. Twill tries to arrange the cloak, which must have been her own, around the shivering girl.

A tin gallon can has been cut in half, the lip ragged and dangerous. It sits in the ashes, filled with a handful of pine needles steaming in water.

“Making tea?” I ask.

 

Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 27-Jun-2022

Publications

 01-Jun-2010
Scholastic, Inc.
Kindle e-Book
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
01-Jun-2010
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$7.99
Pages*:
403
Read:
Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1680
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-545-22724-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-545-22724-7
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Tim O'Brien  - Cover Artist
Elizabeth B Parisi - Jacket Design
From amazon.com:

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
Cover:
Book Cover
Notes and Comments:
I read this just after reading The Hunger Games.

E-Book ISBN 978-0-545-22724-7.  First edition, September 2009.

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Author(s)

Suzanne Marie Collins  
Birth: 10 Aug 1962 Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Notes:
From About the Author in The Hunger Games
SUZANNE COLLINS is the author of the bestselling Underland Chronicles, which started with Gregor the Overlander. In The Hunger Games, she continues to explore the effects of war and violence on those coming of age. Suzanne lives with her family in Connecticut.

Awards

2010Locus MagazineBest YA Novel Nominee
2018Good ReadsBest of the Best Nominee
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  • Synopses marked with an asterisk (*) were generated by an AI. There aren't a lot since this is an iffy way to do it - AI seems to make stuff up.
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  • Page numbers on this site are for the end of the main story. I normally do not include appendices, extra material, and other miscellaneous stuff at the end of the book in the page count.






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