The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the prequel to The Hunger Games, set 64 years before the original trilogy. It follows a young Coriolanus Snow, decades before he becomes the tyrannical President of Panem, as he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12, during the 10th annual Hunger Games.