Books with title Suzanne Collins

As a child, Suzanne Collins listened raptly to her father’s tales of war. She enjoyed reading Greek myths andhad ambitions of being an actor. Collins took all these experiences and put them into the pages of her amazingHunger Games books. Remarkable Writers is a biography series that profiles and celebrates significantchildren’s authors. Each book explores the life of a well-known children’s writer and provides an overviewof his or her most popular books. Additional facts are provided through a timeline, awards, and fan information.This is an AV2 media enhanced book. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. Thisbook comes alive with video, audio, weblinks, slide shows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.

What makes Suzanne Collins extraordinary? Read this book to find out. This title explores her childhood in Europe and the USA, including her father’s strong influence on her writing. We look at her road to professional accomplishments, including her time as a writer for television and her success with The Hunger Games trilogy. Read about others’ perspectives on her life, how her life has been different to women writers of the past, and how she has broken boundaries.

This contemporary biography series profiles the lives of some of today’s most prominent newsmakers; whether covering contributions and achievements or notorious deeds, books in this series examine why these well-known people garner public attention.; Writer Suzanne Collins was forty-six when she published The Hunger Games, a novel for young adults set in a dark future where North America has been obliterated by war and climate change. The residents of Collins’s dystopia are forced to send their children to fight to the death in a sadistic game created by the government. The book wrestles with meaty themes: the effect of war, the dangers of voyeurism in popular culture, and how governments use hunger and threats of violence to control populations. This new edition in Lucent's People in the News series details Collins's life before The Hunger Games - the first eighteen years of her writing career in television, and her well-received children’s book series called The Underland Chronicles - as well as the phenomenal and unexpected success of the Hunger Games series. So far 8.2 million copies of Collins’s Hunger Games books have sold and, after the release of a movie in 2012, sales figures are only expected to climb.; Offering insight into the lives of people who have made an impact in the modern era, People in the News volumes are sure to be of interest to students researching current topics and popular culture. Through quotations from the individual profiled as well as from friends, supporters, and critics, readers learn how these men and women view themselves as well as how other regard them. Each book in this series includes sidebars, photographs, annotated bibliographies, timelines, and comprehensive indexes.

What makes Suzanne Collins extraordinary? Read this book to find out. This title explores her childhood in Europe and the USA, including her father’s strong influence on her writing. We look at her road to professional accomplishments, including her time as a writer for television and her success with The Hunger Games trilogy. Read about others’ perspectives on her life, how her life has been different to women writers of the past, and how she has broken boundaries.

This contemporary biography series profiles the lives of some of today's most prominent newsmakers; whether covering contributions and achievements or notorious deeds, books in this series examine why these well-known people garner public attention.; Writer Suzanne Collins was forty-six when she published The Hunger Games, a novel for young adults set in a dark future where North America has been obliterated by war and climate change. The residents of Collins's dystopia are forced to send their childr; Offering insight into the lives of people who have made an impact in the modern era, People in the News volumes are sure to be of interest to students researching current topics and popular culture. Through quotations from the individual profiled as well