The Hunger Games · Book 4
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- Published
- 19 May 2020
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN-13
- 9781339016573
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, arriving a decade after Mockingjay in 2020, is the first of two prequels, pulling the lens back onto a young, still-sympathetic Coriolanus Snow during the 10th Hunger Games.
Its place in The Hunger Games
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is book 4 in the The Hunger Games series. It follows Mockingjay. It is followed by Sunrise on the Reaping. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781338674453
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780702300172
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780702309519