The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)

By Suzanne Collins

1655 ratings 2486 reviews 2868 followers
Book 1 of 3 in the  The Hunger Games Series
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Grades 6 - 8Grades 10 - 9Z5.399750
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before - and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

 

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.

Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN-13: 9780439023481
ISBN-10: 0439023483
Published on 9/14/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384

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Best book and movie evah

What is your favorite part. I don't know what my favorite part was I loved the whole thing. It was so gross but at the same time awesome.

Fyreheart12 Fyreheart12

The Hunger Games Series is amazing. A MUST READ!! I cried, laughed, and felt exactly what Katniss was feeling. The movie was just as good. Jennifer Lawrence was amazing in it. READ!!!

I have never read this book. But i have seen the movie and would really want to have the book series. If anyone has the book serise please tell me if it was good or not. Thanks Rampage

Awesome! i didn't see the movie but read the books and i loved it. the beginning might be a bit boring for you but plz read it. ( i don't have the series, but last year, most of my classmates went nuts and brought the books, mockingjay pin, posters, watched the movie and one classmate was so crazy about it that

they dressed up as katniss, got the arrow thingy, wore the pin and kept on talking about it. she got the gloves, wore all black, like thats how crazy my class was about it). warning : some romance ( did that have to be a part in the book?) and killing and weapons mentioned in all books.

in read the book just for a sneak peek and LOVED it i saw the movie and i heard that there make the other 2 movies just as there were 2 other books

it was jus like the movie

mynamedontmatta mynamedontmatta

I love this book and you should read the other two sequals

katniss joins the hunger games but, who won?

i reccommend the WHOLE series. It's really cool and are must reads. There are some really sad parts.. but i dont want to spoil it for the ppl who didnt read it. so must read.. except for ppl who aren't into violence and blood and stuff.

could'n stop reading !!!!! loved it im reading the 2nd!! :)

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