The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)

By Suzanne Collins

1653 ratings 2484 reviews 2862 followers
Book 1 of 3 in the  The Hunger Games Series
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
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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Suzanne Collins, if your out there than I think you should write a fourth hunger games book,because I want to know what happens to Katniss,Glae, and Peata. PLEASE!!(sorry I don't know how to spell his name.)

I LOVED it!! It's a fight to the death, a little bloody and muddy,but it is a great book.:)

I really want to read this book and watch the movie because it sounds awesome! Once my friend had foam bow and arrows and swords then had a war with his friends for his party!

This book is really unique with an excellent plot. There are many parts you may not expect, but there are also many parts when you know what will happen. I really like the second book better, but this book is still amazing. You'll be on the edge of your seats every second of the way.

makenzie makenzie

so weird I am a teenager and they wont let me read it

makenzie makenzie

I have seen the movie but the library at my school wont let me read it and they have the book plus my mom and dad wont let me read it and I have seen the movie but they hadn't they say that it is to vilont and they hadn't even seen the movie

I have seen the minecraft version of hunger games so the hunger games looks so cool

i love this book but i have not read the 2 or 3 book

Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins

Im glad to see young minds reading

I like the movie

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