This is just awesome. Like, so awesome. I wish we'd done this in high school when we did Handel's Messiah.
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The first of three books set in a post-apocalyptic world called Panem, which formed out of what was once North America. Each of twelve Districts must send two tributes - kids between the ages of 12 and 18 - to the Capital to participate in the Hunger Games, where they all try and kill each other and the last one standing is the victor.
This book is really fantastic. It's so creepy and weird and foreign - kids having to kill each other for the entertainment of the Capital and the punishment of the Districts...
How to Train Your Dragon
A new animated film from Dreamworks. LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
Go look up the trailer on Youtube. Now. Go.