The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)

By Suzanne Collins

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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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PinkBook PinkBook

At first, I thought the book is soooo boring that I had to put it down. in my second attempt, I became addicted to the book. The Hunger Games is a game that means fame and victory if you won and death if you don't. Katniss fights against 23 other contestants in life-or-death situations while developing some unexplainable relationships. Katniss Everdeen fights against her death continuously and bravely, depending completely on her skills and the few items that were given to her in the beginning. In a completely horrible game, Katniss develops feelings for her partner, Peeta. May odds be ever in Katniss's favor! If you don't read this book, you will miss the experience of a lifetime! this book is basically my favorite of the series. A MUST READ BOOK FOR EVERY PERSON WALKING THE EARTH!
picklegjh picklegjh

This is a really good book.
rockercat rockercat

the best book of all so amazing U have to read it
Ashlynn Ashlynn

My fav book out of the three
bookss bookss

I am siting on it right now it is so good.
bookss bookss

Not easy to escape.Winning is fame Losing is death. I am reading Hunger games.The games arent easy if you lose now one will ever hear form you again win is money and fame.
demigod64 demigod64

this book was soooooooooo good i am a huge fan :)! I dressed up as Katniss for haloween because i thought she was so kick butt and awesome!
lizzi lizzi

great book!
blackmagic blackmagic

I love this book. It is about how a girl named Katniss is forced to fight in the Hunger Games, where she has to kill 23 other tributes from twelve different districts to win.
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