The Hunger Games · Book 3

Mockingjay

by Suzanne Collins

Published
24 August 2010
Pages
424
ISBN-13
9781410428417
Type
novel

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Cover of Mockingjay

About this book

Mockingjay closes the original trilogy in 2010 at 424 pages, pulling Katniss into open war against the Capitol and paying off the series' ideas about propaganda, spectacle, and the cost of violence on a child soldier.

Its place in The Hunger Games

Mockingjay is book 3 in the The Hunger Games series. It follows Catching Fire. It is followed by The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. See the full The Hunger Games reading order.

In the ruins of North America, the totalitarian nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a boy and a girl to fight to the death on live television, punishment for a long-ago rebellion against the Capitol. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her little sister's place in the arena, and what follows is both a survival thriller and a slow-burn revolution: Katniss becomes an unwilling symbol of resistance, is forced into a love triangle staged as much for cameras as for her own…

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