Scholastic and Lionsgate teamed up for a double hit of "Hunger Games" news: Not only would a new prequel book be released 10 months later, but the unpublished novel was already in the works as a film set with a November 2026 theatrical release.

Many beloved (and hated) "Hunger Games" characters appear as younger versions in "Sunrise on the Reaping," and some surprising dots are connected.

As a kid you focus so much on the plot and the action,” says Miller, a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and among hundreds of fans at the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan’s Union Square who attended the midnight launch party for “Sunrise on the Reaping,