From the library
“Sunrise on the Reaping”
By Suzanne Collins
Welcome to the 50th Hunger Games! It’s the second Quarter Quell and its specialty will be doubling the tributes. Four children from each district will be reaped for a total of forty-eight tributes. The children will fight till only one is left. This year, one of the four District 12 tributes is Haymitch Abernathy. He is a sixteen-year-old rascal who loves Lenore Dove, his mother, and little brother Sal. As they call his name at the reaping, Haymitch realizes he is losing everything and everyone because he will die in the arena. However, he can still protect them if he plays the Capitol’s Games in public well. Will Haymitch die in the arena or become a victor? After all, there hasn’t been a victor from District 12 in forty years. The odds are not in his favor.
This is another fantastic installment in the world of Panem from Suzanne Collins. It takes place 24 years before the beginning of the original trilogy and 40 years after the first prequel. You can read this one as a standalone or within the entire series. Find it in the Library!
“The Other Mrs.”
By Mary Kubica
Will and Sadie Foust, along with their two children, have just moved to Will’s deceased sister’s house in Maine to care for his niece, Imogen. Imogen is an angry teen who is grieving the loss of her mother and hates the presence of her new housemates. Sadie thinks it will just take time. Just when she tries to settle in, the neighbor, Morgan Baines, is found brutally murdered. Sadie had never met Morgan, but the elderly couple from down the street says they saw her fighting with her the day before. The police don’t seem to be satisfied with Sadie’s answers, but there is no evidence to suggest otherwise. That is, until Sadie starts to find things around the house. Now she has to question which member of her family is the one that has been hiding evidence and sneaking out of the house at night. Are there more people living in that house than she originally thought?
