The Hunger Games!

Katniss Everdeen

The Hunger Games is a creative book written by Suzanne Collins. The book is set in a dystopian future where the country Panem is split into 13 Districts. Each District provides The Capitol with resources. Every year each District must provide one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to be put into an arena to fight to the death. This is for the entertainment of the Capitol and to remind the Districts of the Dark Days, when The Districts uprised against the Capitol. 12 Districts were defeated, the thirteenth destroyed. Now District 13 is gone. The Hunger Games is a symbol that makes people fear The Capitol, a symbol that reminds people that The Dark Days must never be repeated.

Primrose Everdeen

This year at The Reaping, District 12's Katniss Everdeen's name is going into the bowl 20 times. Her younger sister Primrose's name is going in once. At The Reaping District 12's escort, Effie Trinket pulls out a name from the boys bowl and the girls bowl. Howevers name she pulls out, that person will be going into The Hunger Games.

The book was recently made into a movie directed by Gary Ross. Jennifer Lawrence is playing Katniss Everdeen, Willow Shields is playing Primrose Everdeen and Elizabeth Banks is playing Effie Trinket.

I love The Hunger Games probably because it gets my attention. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put the book down! It has lots of cliff hangers, a bit of action, with a touch of romance.