Annotation
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, 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."
Awards
2009 Teen Buckeye Book Award
2009 American Library Association Notable Books for Children
2008 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
2010-2011 California Young Reader Medal
2010 Beehive Young Adults' Book Award
2010 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
2010 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
2011 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
2010-2011 SCASL Book Award (South Carolina)
2009-2010 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2009-2010 Maine Student Book Award
2010 Nevada Young Reader's Award
2010-2011 Black-Eyed Susan Book Award
2010 Bluegrass Award
2010 New York State Charlotte Award
2010-2011 Land of Enchantment Book Award
2011 Garden State Teen Book Award
2011 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award
2011 Sequoyah Book Award
2008 School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
2010-2011 Young Hoosier Book Award
2011 Young Reader's Choice Award
2011 Golden Archer Award (Wisconsin)
2010-2011 Golden Sower Award
Characters
| Name | Everdeen, Katniss |
| Gender | Female |
| Name | Mellark, Peeta |
| Gender | Male |
| Genre | Young adult fiction Adventure --Survival Action Science fiction Dystopia |
| Topics | Television programs Good vs. evil Death Games Poverty Future of Earth Dystopias Post-apocalyptic society Emotions Government corruption Tournaments Survival Pop culture Totalitarianism |
| Series | ||
| Hunger games | ||
| 1 | The Hunger games | |
| 2 | Catching fire | |
| 3 | Mockingjay | |