# Sunrise on the Reaping

**Author:** Suzanne Collins
**Grade range:** Grades 7–12
**Age range:** 12–18
**First published:** 2025
**Genre:** Dystopian Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781546171461`
**ISBN-10:** `1546171460`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/sunrise-on-the-reaping
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A prequel to The Hunger Games set during the Second Quarter Quell — the fiftieth Hunger Games — in which a sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy is reaped from District 12 into an arena holding twice the usual number of tributes. Suzanne Collins returns to Panem to trace the events that shaped the mentor readers first met in the original trilogy. A 2025-2026 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award nominee (grades 7-12).

## Themes

- survival
- power
- sacrifice

## Where this book is assigned

### Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award

- **recommended** · 7th grade · Colorado — [source: Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2025-2026 Nominee List (Grades 7-12)](https://coloradobluespruceaward.partnersinliteracy.org/2025-2026-book-nominations-talks/)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Colorado — [source: Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2025-2026 Nominee List (Grades 7-12)](https://coloradobluespruceaward.partnersinliteracy.org/2025-2026-book-nominations-talks/)
- **recommended** · 9th grade · Colorado — [source: Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2025-2026 Nominee List (Grades 7-12)](https://coloradobluespruceaward.partnersinliteracy.org/2025-2026-book-nominations-talks/)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Colorado — [source: Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2025-2026 Nominee List (Grades 7-12)](https://coloradobluespruceaward.partnersinliteracy.org/2025-2026-book-nominations-talks/)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Colorado — [source: Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2025-2026 Nominee List (Grades 7-12)](https://coloradobluespruceaward.partnersinliteracy.org/2025-2026-book-nominations-talks/)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Colorado — [source: Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2025-2026 Nominee List (Grades 7-12)](https://coloradobluespruceaward.partnersinliteracy.org/2025-2026-book-nominations-talks/)

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