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//Mockingjay // by Suzanne Collins

Book length: 391pgs
Recommended grade range: 8th+ Year Published: 2010 Ijhad Bonner pd. 4/5



**//Mockingjay// Summary ** Katniss was an average girl until she volunteered herself over her sister in the Hunger Games. Once in the arena Katniss had to train herself to be a fierce and efficient killer. Peeta a boy who spent most of his life in his parents’ bakery didn’t have very many skills until he was chosen as the male contestant for The Hunger Games. He was happy because he got to be with the love of his life, Katniss, inside the arena, but not for very long. Then Peeta had to learn to use his environment inside the arena.

Mockingjay is about a girl, Katniss Everdeen, who has just finished going on her victory tour from the previous Hunger Games. In this tour she gets to see firsthand the rebellion that is spreading because of her. Right when she is going to really get to spend time with her family she was picked by the Capitol to be in the Quarter Quell. The Quarter Quell is a special Hunger Games that happens every 25 years and special rules apply to it. This year the Quarter Quell says that previous victors must take place in the “Games” this year. Katniss really isn’t in very good shape for the games since the Capitol isn’t on her side because of the rebellion, and she still has to face 23 other people in the Games. When Katniss enters the arena she becomes allies with some of the other contestants. She begins to learn how to survive in the arena until a series of mysterious events start to happen like, deadly mist, mutated monkey attacks, deadly lightning, and acidic rainfall. Once Katniss learns to follow the pattern of events one of her allies, Beetee, comes up with a plan. He is going to attach a wire coil to the force field that surrounds the arena and to the tree that the deadly lightning strikes each day. Everything seems to be according plan until something goes horribly wrong! **//Mockingjay// Review ** I think the book Mockingjay is a very good book because it has a lot of action in it, but also sad moments that make you want to cry. I recommend this book to people who like action and adventure books because there is a lot of fighting involved in the book and Katniss travels to a vast area of places in the book. I would recommend the book to 8th graders and up because it uses a lot of advanced vocabulary words. I think the Hunger Games trilogy is an amazing series and would be a great book for anyone who wants to read good books. This book also contains a lot of detailed descriptions and tons of moments that urge you to keep turning the page. The great author Suzanne Collins also has another excellent book series published called the Gregor Chronicles.