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Sunrise on the Reaping
On his sixteenth birthday — which is also reaping day — District 12's Haymitch Abernathy wants only to finish his chores, waste the afternoon, and see Lenore Dove. The 50th Hunger Games is a Quarter Quell: twice as many tributes. When a boy runs from the square and is shot, Haymitch is shoved into the broadcast as the replacement. Suzanne Collins's 2025 prequel follows him to the Capitol with three other District 12 kids — a neighbor he calls sweetheart, a family oddsmaker, and the merchant girl he cannot stand — and into an arena built as much of cameras as of mutts. The question is not only whether he can win. It is whether anyone watching will be allowed to see what he actually did.
“Don't you let it rise on the reaping.”
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