"'I couldn't stop reading.... Addictive.' —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Review
'I was so obsessed with this book I had to take it with me out to dinner and hide it under the edge of the table so I wouldn't have to stop reading. The story kept me up for several nights in a row, because even after I was finished, I just lay in bed wide awake thinking about it...The Hunger Games is amazing.' —Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Saga
'As close to perfect an adventure novel as I've ever read.' —Rick Riordan, author of The Percy Jackson Series and The 39 Clues
This was one of the best books I read in 2008, particularly in terms of pacing and suspense. I guarantee that after you read the first chapter, you won't be able to put it down."
Publisher Scholastic Press
Publication Date 2010-07-03
Section New Titles - Paperback / Children's Middle Grade / All Staff Suggestions / Archived Staff Suggestions / Jen C.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780439023528
Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives.
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death—televised for all of Panem to see.
Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
