Regarding the Hunger Games

....Dear Everybody......
I've said this a few,  times but I'll say it again. 
(http://rhskhernandez.blogspot.com/2011/07/second-book-ideas.html)
Don't do The Hunger Games This is not an AP list book, and it is not appropriate for the second novel.
It is a Young Adult literature book. 
It is a part of a trilogy. 
Let me give you some perspective about this book.
The Hunger Games has a Lexile score of 810....that means it's a 4th- 5th grade book....
The Awakening one of the books we will read this semester scores between 1100 1200 that's supposedly 10-12th grade level.
The Bluest Eyes is about 930 which is 10-11th. 
So The Hunger Games


“The heat is horrible, but worse than the heat is the smoke, which threatens to suffocate me at any moment. I pull the top of my shirt up over my nose, grateful to find it soaked in sweat, and it offers a thin veil of protection. And I run, choking, my bag banging against my back, my face cut with branches that materialize from the gray haze without warning, because I know I am supposed to run


Notice the small words and pretty simple sentence structure. Lots of I. 
Now Jane Eyre and The Hunger Games  are considered  9th grade level readability books on the Flesch Kincaid scale....let me kick you a paragraph. 


This lane inclined up-hill all the way to Hay; having reached the middle, I sat down on a stile which led thence into a field. Gathering my mantle about me, and sheltering my hands in my muff, I did not feel the cold, though it froze keenly; as was attested by a sheet of ice covering the causeway, where a little brooklet, now congealed, had overflowed after a rapid thaw some days since. From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. I lingered till the sun went down amongst the trees, and sank crimson and clear behind them. I then turned eastward.



Both of these are pretty much two scene about two characters dealing with their environment, but they are very different in terms of syntax and structure. So that scale is not really accurate to me.  Anyway you get the idea. What I'm saying is that The Hunger Games is not going to help get you trained up for AP lit class.  Honestly, most of the summer reading from the county is at a low readability but high interest area. So...read it for fun, not for class. 


Citaitons forth coming.