I never had the impression that the last prequel book and movie were very popular. Sometimes it’s okay to just let things die.

Scholastic announced Thursday that “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth volume of Collins’ blockbuster dystopian series, will be published March 18, 2025. The new book begins with the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, set 24 years before the original “Hunger Games” novel, which came out in 2008, and 40 years after Collins’ most recent book, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”

Gotta milk the cow… a bit too late though, the mockingbird fad has long passed.