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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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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Every year for 74 years a boy and a girl between the ago of 12 and 18 has been chosen from 12 districts to compete in the Hunger Games. At the reaping eremony, Prim, the 12 year old sister of the main character, Katniss, was selected, and Katniss takes her place to save her from possibly dying in the Hunger Games, and the other tribute selected was Peeta. They are then taken into custody, and are sent onto the Tribute Train to the capitol after visits from their families. After they arrived, they were taken to the remake center to be readied for the opening ceremony, and after the opening ceremony they were taken to the training center, where they stayed until the games. This book is very action packed and interesting, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good book to read.

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this book is very action packed but is sad in some parts but over all I recommend reading this book. I've watched all the movies and the movies are pretty good to but I still like the books much better. the book is about a girl named katniss who volunteers for her sister to fight in the hunger games. the girl is an ace when it comes to bow and arrow shooting and on the adventure she befriends a boy named peeta. peeta is excellent at art and can make himself blend in with almost any surrounding he is also very strong and can throw javelins. well they win the hunger games and she goes back home but president snow calls all the winners back for another hunger game and katniss is heartbroken. and that's were the 2 book/movie begins

This book was very sad but funny and darkly humurous at some points

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This was a really good book

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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!

This is a really good book.

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

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