Hunger Games at Ten: How Has It Been a Decade Already?

I guess I vaguely noticed that Scholastic was releasing some kind of Hunger Games Special Edition yesterday. I dunno, do publishers even need an excuse to release special editions? I wasn’t paying too much attention. But that was before I was told that the book is now ten years old. Released originally in 2008, it’s been a decade since we first heard the name “Katniss Everdeen”.

It got me to thinking. You see, I’ve been blogging for SLJ just about that long (and before that I blogged on a lit...