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" The wait is almost over! August 24, the third installment of The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay, will be out! In the first two parts of the trilogy, readers joined 16-year-old Katniss as she was randomly selected to represent her District in The Hunger Games, a deadly survival game that is broadcast live across the country every year as a form of entertainment. When it it revealed that Katniss must compete against a kind-hearted boy from her school, Peeta, she realizes that there is only one way for them both come out alive: They must convince the audience that they are in love (who doesn&amp;#039;t like a good romance, after all!). Now that Peeta and Katniss have won the games and returned home national celebrities, real-life is more complicated than ever. Katniss is torn between her feelings for Gale, the dark-haired, handsome boy she left behind, and the kind and loyal Peeta, who saved her life. To make matters worse, she finds herself at the center of a large-scale political rebellion against the corrupt Capitol, and now they will stop at nothing to punish her. Katniss may have been lucky enough to win The Games twice, but when her district is destroyed, and her mother and sister are just barely saved by Gale, protecting everyone she loves from the ruthless Capitol has become dangerous than ever. This book promises to be groundbreaking, so get ready to re-enter the battlefield one final time for a thrilling and dangerous read. Can&amp;#039;t wait to read it? Author Suzanne Collins gives you a sneak peek of the book by reading you the first chapter in the video below! And, guess what! Suzanne will be a guest judge for Seventeen&amp;#039;s 2010 fiction contest! Check back on seventeen.com for more details on that coming soon! Are you excited about the new book? Tell us about it in a comment below!      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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