I finally bought Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins and read it and loved it! I am going to give my copy away to a lucky winner. If you already own it or read it, please enter anyway and donate it to a local school or library! To enter, all you have to do is leave a [...]

You never know what you’re going to get on a Wacky Wednesday here at Read These Books and Use Them. Today, I need your help! I love the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins (love her Gregor series, too). I even had it marked on my calendar when Mockingjay was coming out, but then. . [...]

You might have noticed this new widget I have on my sidebar, courtesy of JacketFlap and the Children’s Book Council. It is announcing several nominees for the Children’s Choice Book Awards. In case you didn’t know, the Children’s Choice Book Award nominees have been announced in each category: Kindergarten to second grade, third to fourth [...]

Whenever I read books like The Giver, I am fascinated with the way the author has created this amazing future world that is so incredibly screwed up. I am a big fan of The Hunger Games series which I’ve wrote about a couple times on this blog. When reading Suzanne Collins’s series, I an so [...]

Hi all, Thank you so much for all the comments for Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. The winner is Pamela S. Stay tuned for later in the day when I update this post with an interview from a third grade teacher about how she uses technology in an eMINTS classroom. One of my favorite Maniac [...]

Yes, you read that right. . .you can win your very own hard cover copy of Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (the sequel to The Hunger Games) by leaving a comment below. I’m not even going to make you do anything special in your comment if you don’t want to–you can just say “pick me” [...]

Reviewed by Margo Dill, margodll@aol.com, www.margodill.com Photo by B. Sandman www.flickr.com *Young adult novel, fantasy set in the future *16-year-old girl as main character *Rating: I’m a fan of the Underland series by Suzanne Collins, so I picked up The Hunger Games, and I loved it even more than the Gregor books. The Hunger Games [...]