The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

by Suzanne Collins

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Katniss Everdeen lives in a world of poverty. District 12 as a whole survives on coal mining, and is the most forgotten district in the Nation. After the death of her father, Katniss learned to hunt with a bow and arrow to feed her mother and sister. When her 13-year-old sister’s name is drawn to fight in the Hunger Games, Katniss doesn’t hesitate to take her place. Will Katniss’s hunting skill be enough to help her survive? District 12 has only had one winner in the 73 prior Hunger Games. As if her chances to survive aren’t bad enough, she is being sent to fight against Peeta Mellark, the boy who’s act of kindness was a poignant memory for her. Will she be able kill him? Will they even survive long enough to decide that?

The first half of the book sets up world that Katniss lives in and after her selection as a contestant, we get the backstage tour of the “show,” because that is how the Games are treated by the people of the Capitol. The contestants are dressed, interviewed and paraded before the cameras so that the people of the Capitol and Districts can bet and live the thrill of the Games.

The Games themselves will leave you on the edge of your seat. Katniss’s fight to survive against all odds, not just against the other contestants, but the traps set up by the Capitol for the entertainment of the viewing audience, will leave you breathless.

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