By: Charlene V. Martoni
Intended audience: Students age 8+
Bibliographic information: Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Scholastic Press, 2008.
Key passage: Page 19, last paragraph, through page 20—The Reaping.
Approach: Setting, character, and plot.
The talk:
- 5/5 stars.
- A post-apocalyptic world that used to be the United States is now called “Panem.” Panem is made up of 13 districts, but one district was destroyed because of rebellion against the government.
- Describe The Reaping and The Hunger Games.
- Series titles.
Bibliographic Information: Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Key passage: Chapter 3—Seeing color.
Approach: Setting, character, and plot.
The talk:
- 4/5 stars.
- The utopia is a dystopia.
- Jonas and the Ceremony of Twelve.
- The Receiver of Memory.
- Is a society without war and pain worth the absence of beauty and love?
- Related titles.
Bibliographic Information: Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Scholastic Press, 1998.
Key passage: Chapter 1—“The Boy Who Lived”
Approach: Setting, character, and plot.
The talk:
- You’ve heard of this one! You should give it a try.
- 7 books, spinoffs, movies, and theme park = long-term reading relationship.
- Harry lives with his aunt and uncle, locked in a closet, until he finds his home at Hogwarts.
- Ron and Hermione.
- Lord Voldemort vs. Harry Potter.
- Series and related titles.
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