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March 2012

Books on Screen

March 2012

After the worldwide phenomenon of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy, the first book in the series has finally made its big screen debut. In a bleak future, the United States has been reduced to a dictatorship with 12 districts. Every year, in order to prevent uprisings, the ruling Capitol forces one boy and one girl from each district to fight each other to the death in a nationally televised arena --- and only one will survive.

To celebrate this much-anticipated release, the publisher Scholastic has made four movie tie-in books available for those of you who just can't get enough of Katniss Everdeen and the annual games: THE WORLD OF THE HUNGER GAMES, THE HUNGER GAMES: MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION, THE OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED MOVIE COMPANION and THE HUNGER GAMES TRIBUTE GUIDE.

On the small screen, "Pretty Little Liars" has wrapped up its second season on ABC Family, but you won't need to wait too much longer for new episodes: the third season gets underway on June 5th!
 

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland
Director: Gary Ross
Distributor: Lionsgate
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Release Date: March 23rd (wide)
Based on: THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins
 
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its 12 districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains.
 
Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.