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My first encounter with Katniss Everdeen occurred in 2008 after a student in a young adult literature course I was teaching at the time approached me after class and recommended that I read a then newly published novel by Suzanne Collins (2008) titled The Hunger Games.
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Connors, S.P. (2014). Introduction. In: Connors, S.P. (eds) The Politics of Panem. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-806-0_1
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