English Teacher's Students to Join Long Hill Library Book Club Discussion

Watchung Hills Regional High School English teacher Leigh Brodsky is encouraging her students to read the first book in "The Hunger Games" trilogy in preparation for the Long Hill Library’s March 12 book club discussion.

"The Hunger Games" trilogy is set in the future in a post-nuclear war North America where most people are struggling to survive under totalitarian rule. The heroine of the series, Katniss Everdeen, is forced to enter a life or death competition and unwittingly becomes a symbol for a revolutionary uprising that threatens to overthrow the dictatorship of the evil President Snow.

Like the Harry Potter series, the novels were originally aimed at a young adult audience, but have become crossover literary sensations, attracting many adult readers. With the new movie opening in just a few weeks, on March 23, the buzz about the books is growing rapidly and Ms. Brodsky decided to take advantage of this. In fact, last spring her science fiction and fantasy students were so passionate and excited about the books that she decided to pick them up for herself and quickly became enamored with the trilogy. The library is eager to involve Ms. Brodsky and her students who will give an adolescents’ perspective to the book club’s discussions.

Everyone is welcome to come join the discussion: the meeting will be at the Long Hill Township Library on March 12 at 7pm.