Learning, literacy and feminism: empowering reluctant readers using The Hunger Games
Popular fiction can have a dramatic impact on young people’s willingness to read, as the Harry Potter franchise has demonstrated, but three researchers from Brock University, Ontario, suggest that other lessons may also be learned. To test their theory, they set up a girls-only book club to study the popular series, The Hunger Games. Their findings are now available, free to view, in a detailed case study published in the current issue of the Journal of Youth Studies. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins is an international publishing phenomenon. The dramatic