The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)

By Suzanne Collins

1652 ratings 2485 reviews 2858 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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really awesome saw the movie it not really like the book but i like it anyway. pretty nice. MY FRIEND READ THE BOOK 49 TIMES!!!!!!!!

i really love this book about love and friendship-never really expected the romance and i really want to read the next two books but dont have the time- it is awesome and i think everybody should read the nook- the author is amazing as well

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.

This book is amazing! I really recommend this book to anyone who loves adventure, is okay will death (but not alot), is exiting, outgoing, really loves to have thier books get into detail, and somone who plays to thier own beat!

i have never read this book but i will someday because everyone says it is so good and i saw the movie and it was sooo good i might buy the movie becuse it is sooooo good

i watch the hungry games it was good this girl saved her siter that was in a trap . awsome

This book is so cool. It is full of love and violence!!! :) Try to read it if you have not. Please Follow me if you have read the books!!!

Sorry to be the downer here, but the truth is I didn't love this book. I do understand why everyone loves it but to me, it wasn't a waste to read it but I kinda wish I didn't read the whole thing. It is a great book. But not so much for me.

Hey its me again! Im sooooooooo team gale! u should be too! ahahahha hahahhaha jahhahahha hah haha ha haha hah ah a hah

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I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IM SOOOOOO TEAM PEETA !!!!!!!!!I LOVE HIM AS AN ACTOR AND PERSON HE"S SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE AAAHHHHHHH HUNGER GAMES IS AWESOME

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