Book guide
The Hunger Games
In a brutal near-future televised fight to the death, sixteen-year-old Katniss volunteers to save her sister and must rely on sheer survival instinct to stay alive.
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About The Hunger Games
First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Fast
Series
The Hunger Games · Book 1 of 5
Content warnings
- child endangerment
- child death
- violence
- death
- murder
- blood
- injury detail
- animal death
- PTSD
