Jefferson White’s voice will deliver the story of Haymitch Abernathy to life.
Schloastic introduced Monday, Feb. 3 that theYellowstone star will narrate the audiobook edition of Suzanne Collins’ highly-anticipated Dawn on the Reaping. The fifth Starvation Video games e book will observe District 12’s Haymitch as he fights by means of the fiftieth Starvation Video games.
“It is an honor to be a small a part of a world I’ve beloved for thus lengthy — Suzanne Collins is a genius and it is equal components exhilarating and terrifying to be again in Panem,” mentioned White, 35.
“We’re past thrilled to have the prodigiously gifted Jefferson White narrate the audio version of Dawn on the Reaping,” mentioned Lori Benton, president of Scholastic Audio. “Together with his capacity to seize the delicate complexities of characters, Jefferson delivers a dynamic and nuanced efficiency that may draw listeners deeper into the uncooked emotion and depth of the world Suzanne Collins has constructed. It is an auditory journey that you simply received’t need to miss!”
White stars as Jimmy Hurdstrom in Paramount’s TV western, which simply wrapped up its fifth season. He is additionally not too long ago appeared in Civil Conflict and Hellboy: The Crooked Man, each launched in 2024.
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First introduced June 6, 2024, Dawn on the Reaping dives into the tragic backstory of tortured Starvation Video games mentor Haymitch, who guides protagonists Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark all through their video games within the authentic trilogy. The fifth e book sees the fiftieth Starvation Video games, additionally the second Quarter Quell — a video games of particular significance, held each 25 years — the place the variety of tributes within the video games is doubled.
“When Haymitch’s identify is named, he can really feel all his goals break,” an official synopsis teases. “He’s torn from his household and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three different District 12 tributes: a younger pal who’s practically a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and essentially the most stuck-up woman on the town.”
The synopsis continues, “Because the Video games start, Haymitch understands he’s been set as much as fail. However there’s one thing in him that wishes to combat … and have that combat reverberate far past the lethal area.”
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The forthcoming Dawn on the Reaping follows Collins’ fourth e book The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which explored the early world of Coriolanus Snow — who later went on to turn out to be the notorious, tyrannical president of Panem. Just like the fourth e book, Dawn on the Reaping might be tailored into a movie, which is slated to debut in theaters Nov. 20, 2026.
Sunrise on the Reaping might be obtainable in print in addition to e-book and audiobook codecs on March 18, 2025 and is offered for preorder now, wherever books are bought.
