COULD YOU SURVIVE ON YOUR OWN,
IN THE WILD, WITH EVERYONE FIGHTING AGAINST YOU?
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. |