HUNGER GAMES

The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.

The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, byScholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien. It has since been released in paperback and also as anaudiobook and ebook.

Miller writes:

"The rules are arbitrary, unfathomable, and subject to sudden change. A brutal social hierarchy prevails, with the rich, the good-looking, and the athletic lording their advantages over everyone else. To survive you have to be totally fake. Adults don't seem to understand how high the stakes are; your whole life could be over, and they act like it's just some "phase"! Everyone's always watching you, scrutinizing your clothes or your friends and obsessing over whether you're having sex or taking drugs or getting good enough grades, but no one cares who you really are or how you really feel about anything."


characters

Jennifer Lawrance
Josh Hutcherson
Liam Hemsworth
Woddy Harrelson
Elizabeth Banks
Williow Shields
Donald Sutherlans
Stanley Tucci
James Newton
Paula Malcomson
Toby Cones
Amandla Stenberg

 
                                                                       by Elif Basumli