One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me. I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

In March 2012 Amazon announced that Collins had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time. In September 2008 Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games the first book of a trilogy by Collins. She worked on several television shows for Nickelodeon including Clarissa Explains It All The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo Little Bear and Oswald.