The Hunger Games
Edition: First Scholastic paperback printing
Series: The Hunger Games, #1
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Published: 2009-09
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780439023528
Copyright date: 2008
Description: 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 Capitols is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and once 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 regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place 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 weight survival against humanity and life against love.
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Notes: US/CAN edition