02178cam a2200397 4500 429709511 TxAuBib 20200716120000.0 200504s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2020007566 9781338635171 1338635174 TxAuBib Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games. The ballad of songbirds and snakes / Suzanne Collins. Songbirds and snakes. Ballad of song-birds and snakes. Song-birds and snakes. First edition. New York : Scholastic Press, 2020. 517 pages ; 22 cm. Hunger games "A Hunger Games novel"--Jacket. Prequel to: The Hunger Games trilogy. "It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes."-- Provided by publisher. 20200716. Survival Fiction. Contests Fiction. Mentoring Fiction. Reality television programs Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Dystopias Fiction. Dystopian fiction. Science fiction. Hunger games.