Catching+Fire

Title: Catching Fire Genre:Action/Adventure Author: Suzanne Collins Length:391 pages Grade Range:5th-9th Year Published: 2009



====Katniss is chosen again to fight for her life with her loved one Peeta. Katniss and Peeta won the first battle for survival and they are back again in a new arena. Katniss and Peeta were chosen to fight again in the new arena with new players by president snow. Ther are 13 districts but district thirteen was blown up by the government. DKatniss lives in District 12 with her mother and sister. Katniss had a very good relationship with her dad. In the woods there was a camp where they would hang out and hunt for food. Katniss’s dad died in a coal mining accident just a couple of years ago. Katniss now lives with her mother and sister. Katniss would go hunting in the woods and would sell and trade her animals for food in her family. Katniss remembers how to set traps and make bow and arrows for survival and killing. Katniss kills rabbits and squirrels and sell them to the bakery for bread. There is where she first met Peeta. Peeta was a young boy who worked in the bakery with his parents. Peeta wasn’t poor nor was he rich. He lives a nice life with food on the table. Peeta has a very interesting hobby. Peetas hobby is painting pictures of people or objects. When Katniss and Peeta are chosen again to fight they are shocked because they thought the fighting was over, but it wasn’t. When Peeta and Katniss get in the arena they didn’t expect a different arena. Former players who won the games came back to fight against each other once more. The players are set on stands in the water. On the land in front is a golden cornucopia filled with weapons, water, and food for survival. Then the siren goes off for the games to begin. Peeta and Katniss dive into the water and swim to the cornucopia. Once they get there weapons and a bottle of water there off for protection. Peeta and Katniss would climb trees and make beds and houses out of them. The reason they put them in trees is so it would be hard for people to get them but easier for them to get the other players. After about 2 days they noticed something weird. It would be 12:00 and a fog of acid would come and eat the skin of the players. At 12:30 it would stop. At 2:00 a rage of evil monkeys would attack the players and would claw, scratch, hit, and kill the players. at 2:30 it would stop unless the playrers killed them. The next day the same pattern appeared. But more painful things. Peeta and Katnis climbed a tree and looked out. Surrounding them was a dome. At the top of the dome was a clock. Katniss and Peeta concluded that each hour something would happen, and they would have to fight for survival. ==== ====This book is one of the best books I have ever read! I love it because it’s fast moving, violent, exciting, and is full of adventure. Once you start reading you can’t stop! When you're reading you get hints of what might happen next. Then the whole idea gets changed and it makes it more interesting so you keep reading until you find out what really happened. This book has never confused me once.I think that's a good thing if you get confused a lot in books. I bought all the books in this series and i re read them over and over because its just that good! It is the most detailed book and I love talking about it with people! ==== ====I would recommend this book to anyone, especially people who love adventure, mystery, action, and violence. I recommend this book because it is so detailed and the way things are put together you cant make it any better. The excitement and violence in this book make you excited! This series is the best series ever. There are three books to this series. The Hunger Games, Catching fire, and Mocking Jay. ====