The Hunger Games /

By: Collins, SuzanneContributor(s): Falco, Phil [book designer] | Scholastic Press [publisher]Material type: TextTextSeries: Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games (Series): bk. 1Publication details: New York : Scholastic Press, 2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 374 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780439023481 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0439023483 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780439023528 (pbk.); 0439023521 (pbk.); 9780545425117 (pbk.); 0545425115 (pbk.); 9780545310581 (lib. bdg.); 054531058X (lib. bdg.); 9781451740752 (PawPrints); 1451740751 (PawPrints)Subject(s): Survival -- Juvenile fiction | Television programs -- Juvenile fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction | Contests -- Juvenile fiction | Young women -- Juvenile fiction | Sisters -- Juvenile fiction | Dystopias -- Juvenile fiction | Interpersonal Relations -- Fiction | Science FictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction | Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2008. | Young adult fiction. | Science fiction. | Science fiction DDC classification: JF LOC classification: PZ7.C6837 | Hun 2008PS3603.O4558 | H86 2008
Contents:
The tributes -- The games -- The victor
Summary: In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to appear in an annual televised event called, "The 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 volunteers to take her sister's place in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. But Katniss has been close to death 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. Here the author explores the effects of war and violence on those coming of age. -- From book jacket
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"Book design by Phil Falco"--t.p. verso

The tributes -- The games -- The victor

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to appear in an annual televised event called, "The 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 volunteers to take her sister's place in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. But Katniss has been close to death 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. Here the author explores the effects of war and violence on those coming of age. -- From book jacket

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