The Hunger Games By: Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games takes place far into the future, when The Americas are controlled by one Giant government centered in the Capital as it is called. The rest of the continents are divided into twelve areas that each specialize in a certain industry there used to be thirteen of these provinces, but thirteen was destroyed when the areas tried to revolt against the Capital. After the revolution was subdued, the Hunger games were introduced by the capital to keep the territories in line. The hunger games, broadcast on television take place once a year, and all children twelve to eighteen are required to be in it, with one boy tribute and one girl tribute from each territory. If your name is selected you are shipped off to the Capital, pampered for about two weeks, and then put into an arena with the other tributes, and forced by the gamemakers to fight to the death, until only one competitor survives. This is the world Katniss Everdeen is used to living in every day of her life. She feels that one day soon, her luck will run out and she will be selected for the hunger games. What she is entirely unprepared for however, is for her younger sister Prim (short for Primrose) to be called to the hunger games. Panic stricken that her sister will die, she volunteers to take her sisters place and save her. The rest of the book is about her experience at the Hunger Games. This book is officially my favorite book at the moment, and I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind a little romance in their literature.