{"product_id":"9780702309519","title":"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Collins, Suzanne \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eReading age: from c 12 years\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 July 2021 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Hunger Games' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 528 pages\u003cbr\u003e199 x 130 x 31 | 368g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the best Hunger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGames movie of them all' USA TODAY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Everything you would expect from Collins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis here: fraught teenage love; plenty of violence... the themes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof friendship, betrayal, authority and oppression will please and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrill' The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'It works beautifully... please don't\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emake us wait another decade' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epre-order Sunrise On the Reaping - the fifth book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the Hunger Games series  - coming March\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbition will fuel him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompetition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill drive him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut power has its price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eannual Hunger Games.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehouse of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eslender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand outmaneuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe odds are against him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elead to favour or failure, triumph or ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eweigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eno matter what it takes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree books, four films and one worldwide phenomenon,  The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHunger Games original trilogy changed the face of global YA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll three of the Hunger Games original novels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave been made into major feature films, starring Jennifer Lawrence,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosh Hutcherson \u0026amp; Liam Hemsworth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best-selling prequel to The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Snakes, was a global number one feature film\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein autumn 2023 and a number one New York Times and The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimes bestseller in hardback in May 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hunger Games\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatching Fire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMockingjay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSunrise On the Reaping - the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efifth book in the Hunger Games series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- coming March 2025 \u0026amp; a film\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eadaptation is slated for November 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hunger Games illustrated edition is releasing in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctober 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49219965878608,"sku":"9780702309519","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9780702309519_cf63da29-6a88-4989-b6af-6a48a1a12c7f.jpg?v=1727711350","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780702309519","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}