The Hunger Games

Now in paperback, the book no one can stop talking about . . .

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 07/03/2010
ISBN: 9780439023528
Pages: 374
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
Award: Black-Eyed Susan Award - Winner

Review Citations: People Weekly 02/21/2011 pg. 51
Entertainment Weekly 04/01/2011 pg. 18
People Weekly 04/04/2011 pg. 44
New Yorker (The) 06/15/2010 pg. 132
New York Times Book Review 07/25/2010 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 12/10/2010 pg. 77
People Weekly 03/05/2012 pg. 58
Asimov's Science Fiction 09/01/2012 pg. 107
Entertainment Weekly 10/16/2015 pg. 113

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 123740 / Hunger Games
Reading Level: 5.3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 15