I was so obsessed with this book.... The Hunger Games is amazing.
This New York Times bestseller launched a global phenomenon. In a brutal future where teens fight to the death on live TV, sixteen-year-old Katniss must choose between survival and humanity. Gripping, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down—this is the book that started it all.
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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 other districts in line by forcing them to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight-to-the-death on live TV.
One boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and sixteen are selected by lottery to play. The winner brings riches and favor to his or her district. But that is nothing compared to what the Capitol wins: one more year of fearful compliance with its rule. 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 impoverished 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.
This New York Times bestselling phenomenon launched a global cultural sensation. Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. Perfect for fans of dystopian fiction and survival stories, The Hunger Games is the kind of book you’ll finish in one breathless sitting, then immediately want to discuss with everyone you know.
Whether you’re discovering Katniss’s story for the first time or returning to Panem, this is the book that started it all.
I was so obsessed with this book.... The Hunger Games is amazing.
Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced.
A violent, jarring speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense.... I couldn't stop reading.
Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic.
Constantly exciting, ultraviolent, and thought-provoking.
Collins has written a compulsively readable blend of science fiction, survival story, unlikely romance, and social commentary.
Whereas Collins's Underland Chronicles series was an allegory for war, the Hunger Games trilogy is an allegory for life under a totalitarian regime. A brutal, often bloody book, it is also hopeful, with one of the strongest and most complex female protagonists in recent young adult literature.
This is a book that will appeal to fans of The Giver and Ender's Game, but with a female protagonist that girls will also love.
Readers will wait eagerly to see what happens in the next installment.
| Weight | 1.00 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 6.25 × 1.50 × 8.50 in |
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| Subject | Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction, Survival Stories |
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