This book is hunger-driven (excuse the pun) and delectably wonderful. Suzanne Collins is a genius. Now that there are also movie adaptations, I can't wait to compare them to each other. Recommend you read this book if you're into a dystopian book setting. Nice read when you want to escape reality.
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)
By Suzanne Collins
Book 1 of 3 in the
The Hunger Games Series
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 6 - 8 | Grades 10 - 9 | Z | 5.3 | 99750 |
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
Book Reviews (2386)
The Hunger Games series are such a good series I love it it is so fast paced and really cool with all of the hybrid species like the "tracker-jacker" it is so amazing.
It was a really nice book to read. The plot and characters really stuck out to me. The fact that Peta and Katniss are forced to almost kill each other is a nice twist.
I really wanna read this book!!!!!
The hunger games is the yearly torcher. Katniss Everdeen lives with her mom and her little sister Prim in district 12. The capital holds the hunger games every year. Each district has to put one boy and one girl in the Hunger Games. The Hunger games is a hands-on fight to the death with no escape. The last kid standing wins. When little Prim is chosen Katniss had to step in and she had to get sent to the Hunger Games. Will Katniss with her talent with a bow and arrow beat the Hunger Games?
I just finished reading this and I think its one of the best books ever, I mean everything about ti is amazing and how brave is katniss?!
This book is a must read and a always one of my favourites. This book is the best dystopian book i have read , and i can wait to read the rest!!!!
My friend told me to read The Hunger Games I said ok. It took me forever to get to the good part. When I was done I rate it 10/10. It was really sad, NO SPOILERS!!
cool! this book has 5 star ratings cos i think it's so interesting :-)
Is it that good? our teacher wants us to choose a book for book report of 6th grade and I am dieting for a recommendation of a book