The Hunger Games: The First Book of the Hunger Games

Suzanne Colins

Scholastic India Pvt Limited, Sep 1, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 374 pages

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

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About the author

Suzanne Collins' debut novel, Gregor the Overlander, the first book in The Underland Chronicles, received wide praise both in the United States and abroad. The series has been a New York Times bestseller and received numerous accolades. Also a writer for children's television, Suzanne lives with her family in Connecticut.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Hunger Games: The First Book of the Hunger Games; Book 1 of The hunger games, Suzanne Collins
• Author: Suzanne Colins
• Publisher: Scholastic India Pvt Limited, 2008
• ISBN: 0439023483, 9780439023481
• Length: 374 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction