The Girl Who Was on Fire (Movie Edition): Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy
No. of pages 280
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Katniss Everdeen's adventures may have come to an end, but her story continues to blaze in the hearts of millions worldwide.
In The Girl Who Was on Fire - Movie Edition, sixteen YA authors take you back to the world of the Hunger Games with moving, dark, and funny pieces on Katniss, the Games, Gale and Peeta, reality TV, survival, and more. From the trilogy's darker themes of violence and social control to fashion and weaponry, the collection's exploration of the Hunger Games reveals exactly how rich, and how perilous, Panem, and the series, really is.
* How does the way the Games affect the brain explain Haymitch's drinking, Annie's distraction, and Wiress' speech problems?
* What does the rebellion have in common with the War on Terror?
* Why isn't the answer to "Peeta or Gale?" as interesting as the question itself?
* What should Panem have learned from the fates of other hedonistic societies throughout history-and what can we?
CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Mary Borsellino, Sarah Rees Brennan, Terri Clark, Bree Despain, Adrienne Kress, Sarah Darer Littman, Cara Lockwood, Elizabeth M. Rees, Carrie Ryan, Ned Vizzini, Lili Wilkinson, Blythe Woolston, Diana Peterfreund (NEW), Brent Hartinger (NEW), Jackson Pearce (NEW)
There are 280 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by BenBella Books .
Leah Wilson graduated from Duke University with a degree in Culture and Modern Fiction and is currently Editor-in-Chief, Smart Pop, at BenBella Books. She lives in Cambridge, Mass. Terri Clark is a teen librarian and the author of SLEEPLESS (HarperCollins, 2008). She can be found online at facebook. com/terriclarkbooks. Jackson Pearce is a bestselling author of books for young adult and middle-grade readers. Her favorite magical creature in the Pip series is the Flowerbeast. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Brent Hartinger is the award-winning author of a number of novels, mostly for and about teens, including Geography Club (2003) and five companion books, The Last Chance Texaco (2004); Grand & Humble (2006); Project Sweet Life (2008); and Shadow Walkers (2011). A feature film version of his first novel, Geography Club, was released in November 2013, costarring Scott Bakula, Ana Gasteyer, and Nikki Blonsky. Sarah Rees Brennan was born, raised, and lives in Ireland. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Tell the Wind and Fire, the Lynburn Legacy series, and Season of the Witch (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Book 1), among others. Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the author of a dozen novels for young adults. She has advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. Bree Despain Bree Despain rediscovered her childhood love for creating stories when she took a semester off college to write and direct plays for at-risk, inner-city teens from Philadelphia and New York. She currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband, two young sons, and her beloved TiVo. Adrienne Kress is a Toronto-born actor and writer. Her books include the award-winning and internationally published novels Alex and the Ironic Gentleman , Timothy and the Dragon's Gate , and Hatter Madigan: Ghost in the H. A. T. B. O. X. (with bestselling author Frank Beddor), as well as Steampunk novel The Friday Society and the gothic Outcast . She is also the author of the quirky three-book series The Explorers . Adrienne's first foray into writing horror came with her work on the Bendy and the Ink Machine novels, but as an actor she has had the pleasure of being creepy in such horror films as Devil's Mile and Wolves . And she took great pleasure in getting to haunt teenagers in SyFy's Neverknock .
This book has the following chapters: "Why So Hungry for the Hunger Games?" Sarah Rees Brennan
"Team Katniss" Jennifer Lynn Barnes
"Your Heart Is a Weapon the Size of Your Fist" Mary Borsellino
"Smoke and Mirrors" Elizabeth M. Rees
"Someone to Watch Over Me" Lili Wilkinson
"Reality Hunger" Ned Vizzini
"Panem et Circenses" Carrie Ryan
"Not So Weird Science" Cara Lockwood
"Hunger Game Theory" - Diana Peterfreund
"Crime of Fashion" Terri Clark
"Bent, Shattered, and Mended" Blythe Woolston
"Did the Third Book Suck? - Brent Hartinger
"The Politics of Mockingjay" Sarah Darer Littman
"Gale: Knight. Cowboy. Badass. " - Jackson Pearce
"The Inevitable Decline of Decadence" Adrienne Kress
"Community in the Face of Tyranny" Bree Despain
