The release date for the English version of 'The Hunger Games' by
Suzanne Collins is Oct 2008. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In the wild, when everyone is trying to get you before dawn, could you survive on your own?
Panem is a country situated in the ruins of what was once known as North America. Its bright Capitol is encircled by twelve surrounding districts. The ruthless and brutal Capitol forces each district to send a boy and a girl, aged twelve to eighteen, to compete in the yearly Hunger Games, a battle to the death broadcast live on television, in order to maintain discipline.
When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen goes forward to take her sister's place in the Games, she sees it as a death sentence since she lives alone with her mother and younger sister. However, Katniss has experienced near death before, so survival comes naturally to her. Without realizing it, she enters the race. But if she is to prevail, she will have to begin making decisions that put life and love above survival.