Leah Wilson graduated from Duke University with a degree in culture and modern fiction and is currently senior editor at BenBella Books in Dallas. Leah is the editor of Perfectly Plum: Unauthorized Essays on the Life, Loves, and Other Disasters of Stephanie Plum, Trenton Bounty Hunter and the co-editor on Coffee at Lukeโs: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest and Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedonโs Firefly and Serenity.
Description
Praised by writers from Stephen King to Stephenie Meyer, Suzanne Collinsโ New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy is dark, captivating and deeply thought-provoking. Part straight-up survivalist adventure, part rich allegory and part political thriller, the series has become a new YA favorite. A film version of the first book, The Hunger Games, starring Academy Award-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence, will be released in March 2012.
The first edition of The Girl Who Was on Fire offered even more to think about for teen readers already engrossed by the Hunger Games. From the trilogyโs darker themes of violence and social control to reality television, fashion and weaponry, the collectionโs exploration of the Hunger Games by other YA writers revealed exactly how rich, and how perilous, protagonist Katnissโ world really is. The Girl Who Was on Fire – Movie Edition, released just in time for the release of the first Hunger Games film, includes three brand new essays to take readers even deeper into this challenging YA phenomenon.
Topics include:
- How does the way the Games affect the brain explain Haymitchโs drinking, Annieโs distraction, and Wiressโ speech problems?
- What does the rebellion have in common with the War on Terror?
- Why isnโt the answer to โPeeta or Gale?โ as interesting as the question itself?
- What should Panem have learned from the fates of other hedonistic societies throughout historyโand 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, Brent Hartinger (NEW), Jackson Pearce (NEW), Diana Peterfreund (NEW)
Publication Details
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 1 in.
Weight: 1.25 lbs.
Publication Date: February 2012
Format: E-book (epub)