The Hunger Games

   
     The title of this book is The Hunger Games and the author of The Hunger Games is Suzanne Collins its genre is fiction. The hunger games takes place after the destruction of North America in a nation known as Panem.  Panem consists of a wealthy nation that is surrounded by 12 unwealthy districts, which we start in district 12.  The main character is Katniss who is a 16 year old girl that lives in Panem, the other characters are Katniss’s sister, mom, Gale, and Peeta who Katniss knows only from school and who lives in a bakery.  Once a place known as North America now lies the nation of Panem.  Twelve districts outlying the cruel capitol.  To remind the districts of their past they have to send one girl and one boy between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death. When twelve year old Prim is chosen for the tribute of District Twelve, Her older sister, Katniss takes her place.  She has been close to death before, but with little hope and a promise to come home.  The boy for district twelve was Peeta Mellark.
     This would and wouldn't be a good book to read.  It would be a good book for adults and teenagers to read but it wouldn't be a good book for little kids to read because it can be kinda gruesome when they are fighting in the arena.  The beginning of the book is getting to know about Katniss and her sister and mom.  There mom is not doing good.  There mom got depressed when their dad died in an accident.  Katniss likes to go out of the electric fence to go hunting.  The electric fence is for protecting them from the wild animals.  Then Katniss describes what the hunger games is and that she would have to enter her name more than once.  When it comes time to pick the district twelve’s participants they call Prim, when Katniss hears that she doesn't want her sister in there so she volunteers herself instead of Prim.  My favorite part of the book was when Katniss and Peeta enter on fire and when they announce that there can be two winners.