{"product_id":"9780702309519","title":"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Collins, Suzanne \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eInterest 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 | 354g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Everything you would expect from Collins is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehere: fraught teenage love; plenty of violence... the themes of friendship,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebetrayal, authority and oppression will please and thrill'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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\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. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSnow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuvre his fellow students to mentor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe winning tribute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - ; every\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echoice Coriolanus makes could lead to favour or failure, triumph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto survive no matter what it takes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree books, four films and one worldwide phenomenon,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hunger Games changed the face of global YA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was a global number\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone hit in hardback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon to be a major feature film releasing in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40580109402247,"sku":"9780702309519","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/products\/9780702309519.jpg?v=1710423019","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9780702309519","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}