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In preparation for the new The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes movie, check out these books with similar Hunger Game vibes! @BurlONLibrary bpltrend

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  • Revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.
    Book, 2020New York : Scholastic Press, 2020. — COL
  • Cia Vale hopes to get chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization.
    eBook, 2013Sommerville, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2013. — OVERDRIVE/LIBBY
  • Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
    Book, 2014Harpercollins Childrens Books 2014. — EWI
  • Thomas wakes up in the middle of a maze with no recollection of who he is and how he got there. He must work together with the other boys who are trapped to solve puzzles, fight deadly creatures, and search for an escape.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2009[New York] : Listening Library, 2009. — OVERDRIVE/LIBBY
  • Champions compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world and a chance to join the ruling group of magicians known as the Judges.
    Book, 2021New York : Tor Teen, 2021. — FOO
  • Tierney James struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.
    eBook, 20192019. — OVERDRIVE/LIBBY
  • In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
    Book, 2011New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. — LU
  • Set in the distant future, years after the Sixty Minute War, Tom Natsworthy, is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
    Book, 2012New York : Scholastic, 2012, c2001. — REE
  • Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life. She discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
    Book, 2011New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, [2011] — ROT
  • Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties.
    Book, 2011New York : Simon Pulse, 2011, c2005.