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The Hunger Games

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463 Reviews
Scholastic Inc., 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 374 pages
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 (cont'd)
  

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The very premise of The Hunger Games is flawed. - Goodreads
Great character development... - Overstock.com
And the writing is bad. - Goodreads
And then the plotline is impeccable. - Goodreads
Adding the ridiculous cliffhanger ending. - Goodreads
The visuals that the book creates are vivid. - Goodreads

Review: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)

User Review  - Kat (Le Pauvre Cœur) - Goodreads

Review Rewritten Due to Excessive Use of Exclamation Points and Caps Lock. And General Horrible Bad Reviewness. Seriously, I wrote this over a year ago and it SUCKED. It still does. 1.5 Stars The ... Read full review

Review: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1-3)

User Review  - Komal - Goodreads

I had settled down to write a glowing, gushing review that would make the idiots people who haven't read this, drop everything and get their hands on this one and bask in the glow that is Katniss ... Read full review

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
21
Section 3
34
Section 4
48
Section 5
61
Section 6
73
Section 7
86
Section 8
103
Section 15
195
Section 16
208
Section 17
222
Section 18
233
Section 19
247
Section 20
262
Section 21
278
Section 22
290

Section 9
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Section 10
133
Section 11
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Section 12
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Section 13
172
Section 14
185
Section 23
320
Section 24
331
Section 25
346
Section 26
360
Section 27
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About the author (2008)

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.

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