Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
Sparks are igniting.
Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute
Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all,
she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss
wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely.
And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may
have helped create.
Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what
scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for
Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are
higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their
love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.
In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the
story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at
every turn.
- Genre:
- Young Adult
- Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Romance
About the author
Since 1991, Suzanne Collins has been busy writing for children’s television. She has worked
on
the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains
it
All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. For preschool viewers, she penned multiple stories
for
the Emmy-nominated Little Bear and Oswald. She also co-wrote the critically acclaimed
Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Santa, Baby! Most recently she was the Head Writer for
Scholastic
Entertainment’s Clifford’s Puppy Days.
While working on a Kids WB show called Generation O! she met children’s author James
Proimos,
who talked her into giving children’s books a try.
Thinking one day about Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how pastoral the setting must
seem
to kids who, like her own, lived in urban surroundings. In New York City, you’re much more
likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you’re not going to find a
tea
party. What you might find...? Well, that’s the story of Gregor the Overlander, the first
book
in her five-part series, The Underland Chronicles. Suzanne also has a rhyming picture book
illustrated by Mike Lester entitled When Charlie McButton Lost Power.
She currently lives in Connecticut with her family and a pair of feral kittens they adopted
from
their backyard.
The books she is most successful for in teenage eyes are The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and
Mockingjay. These books have won several awards, including the GA Peach Award.
