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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games.
New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. Print.

You are an expert with bows and arrows, having hunted since you were a child. You are now engaged in a televised battle with your peers that is presented to the entire world. Sounds like a great video game, right? Except its not - its real life. And if you don't hurry up and kill off the other teens you are pitted against, you are going to be killed next.

Meet Katniss Everdeen, girl tribute from district 12 with the "honor" of participating in the Hunger Games, a cruel forced death-match put together by the government as a punishment for a past uprising. Every district must present a girl and a boy who will fight to the death in a televised reality tv event. Katniss knows she is strong - but is she strong enough to beat out the 23 other tributes who are gunning for her?

May the odds be ever in your favor.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Abstract (thanks to OCLC World Cat): "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, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place."

Winner: Publisher's Weekly Book of the Year, New York Times Notable Children's Book of 2008, Golden Duck Award 2009, 2008 Cybil Winner, School Library Journal's Best Books 2008, Booklist Editor's Choice 2008, California Young Reader Medal

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