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The Hunger Games Genre: Fiction By: Suzane Collins Number Of Book Pages: 374 Recomended Grade Level: 5th- 6th grade Year Published: 2008 Stoy Summary Katniss is a girl who lives in a place called District 12, the poorest of the 12 districts. Katniss loves to hunt with her bow and arrows. The only problem with this is the fact that she does it illegally, but hey, you would do it too if it were to keep food on the table for her family. Besides, the towns people don’t seem to mind because they r willing to trade their goods for Katniss’ catches. She doesn’t hunt alone, for she hunts with her friend Gale, a boy who is really good at making traps and snares. Katniss lives with her mom and Primrose, her sister, but they call her Prim. Their dad died a while back in a mine explosion, (District 12 Is known for the mining industry). Katniss’ mom tried to leave came back. Because of this Katniss doesn’t trust her mom anymore and decides to take the matters of taking care of the family into her own hands. Peeta, the bakers son, is one of the strongest kids in the district. He can throw 100lb bags of flour around like they were nothing! He also won the wrestling tournament in the school. Every year in the 12 districts there is an event that takes place called the Hunger Games. No body likes the Hunger Games because what they do is pick a boy and a girl from each district to fight to the death in a battle to stay alive. The arena is a randomly selected terrain that could be anything from a desert, to an icy tundra, to a forrest. Each kid over the age of 12 has their name put in for a drawling to see who will be selected. This drawling is called a reaping. This year Prim's name is being put in the reaping for the first time because she just turned 12. Katniss, who is 16, has here name in the reaping over 20 times. She has so many because you have the option to add your name extra times to get extra grain and oil for your family. You might be thinking that this is a bad idea because if everyone hates the Hunger Games so much why up your chances to get picked. The reason for this is because people figure that so many other peoples names are in the reaping that the chances of you getting picked are still very slim. On the day of the reaping this year everyone gathers in a cirtain area to hear who is to be picked for the Hunger Games. Katniss is the least bit worried about getting picked and so is Prim. Strangely enough Prim gets picked. Not wanting anything to happen to her little sister Katniss voulenteers to take Prims spot in the Hunger Games. To make matters worse the boy who is picked is Peeta. Katniss and Peeta are escorted to a building where they say their last good-byes to everybody. Then its off to the Hunger Games. On the train ride there Katniss and Peeta pig out on the gormet food the train ride has to offer. When they arrive the contenders are pressented on national TV. The compition looks tough, but they think they can handle it, sort of. The next day, training begins. Katniss and Peeta are both smart not to give away their strengths, Katniss' being archery and Peeta's being his strength. The day of the games has come. Both Katniss and Peeta are very nervous, but Katniss has promised Prim that she'll come home and is determined to keep that promise. 60 seconds till game time, the other contenders are ready to go, and Katniss' only hope is the bow and arrows in the stack of supplies that is provided for them, if they can get them before the others do. 10...9....8... the seconds are counting down. 4....3...2.... Peeta gives Kattniss one last nod of the head, and the Hunger Games begin. My Review Of The Book I though that the book was fantastic. After each and every chapter i just couldn't put the book down, I thought that it was that good. At the end of each chapter was a cliffhanger. I just couldn't stop reading that book! The author was very descriptive, witch made the book easy to follow. I could picture the book going on in my head as I read, it was described that well. I had no favorite parts in the book, it was all good! I liked the book because it was described very well. I could picture the book as i read it. The charictors were described well, too. Even after the first couple of chapters I couldn't put down the book. It was good from the begining. The only thing I didnt like about the book was that the ending could have been beter. I wish it would've left me wanting to read the second book and instead of that, I'm questioning whether I should read the next book or not. But still, it was the best book i've ever read. I'm not someone who likes to read, but the book always left me wanting to read the next chapter, and no matter how much I wanted to, i just couldn't put it down. I would strongly recomend you read this book. I liked the way it always kept you wanting more. Even if you don't like reading, you should still consider reading the book The Hunger Games. I don't like reading, but this was the best book i ever read, but not only was it good I liked reading it. Some other books by Suzane Collins are Catching Fire and Mocking Jay. I personally haven't read theese books yet, but I'm looking forward to. FINAL RATING: 9.5/10