The San Lorenzo Library will hold events three consecutive days this week focused on the popular literary trilogy The Hunger Games, which will be released as a major motion picture Friday, March 23.
On Tuesday, March 20 from 4 to 5 p.m. the library, located at 395 Paseo Grande, San Lorenzo, will host a "Hunger Games Peeta Party". Librarian Tiffany Yang invites the public to the library to decorate and devour cupcakes in honor of one of the book's characters, a celebrated baker. (For those not yet immersed in the literary trilogy The Hunger Games, published by Scholastic Press, Peeta Mellark is one of of the main characters in the book.)
A Hunger Games Tribute Parade and Costume Making event will be held at the library Wednesday, March 21 from 4 to 5 p.m. and a Hunger Games Race to the Cornucopia Trivia Game takeS place the following day, Thursday, March 22 from 4 to 5 p.m.
All of the library events are free and participants will have a chance to win complimentary tickets to the Hunger Games movie which opens on Friday.
The Hunger Games is a young-adult, dystopian novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published on September 14, 2008. The book is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy, followed by Catching Fire, then Mockingjay.
You can read more about the book, now also a movie, here.
