One of the best-selling teen books of all time (and the inspiration for a smash hit on the silver screen), THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins transports readers to a dystopian society with a legendary tradition to stop rebellion: teens from each district must fight to the death until one victor remains.

It’s dark. It’s violent. And it pulls at your heartstrings and makes you cry, think and cheer more than most YA books out there. Despite the book’s wild reception across the globe, it has frequently appeared on the American Library Association’s list of Top Ten Challenged Books since it was first published, generally for violence and because dissenters thought it was unsuited to the YA age group.

Below, YA author Katie Coyle (VIVIAN APPLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, VIVIAN APPLE NEEDS A MIRACLE) and Teen Board member Hafsah K. talk about their own love of THE HUNGER GAMES and why think banning this modern classic is, in the kindest of terms, “unreasonable.”

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