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In a hull of a place once famous as North America lies a republic of Panem, a resplendent Capitol surrounded by twelve superficial districts. The Capitol is oppressive and vicious and keeps a districts in line by forcing them all to send one child and one lady between a ages of twelve and eighteen to attend in a annual Hunger Games, a quarrel to a genocide on live TV.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mom and younger sister, regards it as a genocide judgment when she is forced to paint her district in a Games. But Katniss has been tighten to passed and survival, for her, is second nature. Without unequivocally definition to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start creation choices that import presence opposite amiability and life opposite love.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #9 in Books
- Published on: 2012-02-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review.
Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there unequivocally are usually 7 strange plots in a world, it's peculiar that child meets lady is always mentioned, and multitude goes bad and attacks a good man never is. Yet we have
Fahrenheit 451,
The Giver,
The House of a Scorpion—and now, following a prolonged tradition of Brave New Worlds,
The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her destiny to a specific date, or weighted it down with too most finger wagging. Rather reduction
1984 and rather some-more
Death Race 2000, hers is a retaining story set in a postapocalyptic universe where a deputy for a United States final a reverence from any of a territories: dual children to be used as gladiators in a televised quarrel to a death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take a place of her sister in a Hunger Games, though after this ultimate sacrifice, she is wholly focused on presence during any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes a significance of holding on to one's amiability in such evil circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's ability during characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable. She has a attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has a beauty to be a good loser.It's no collision that these games are presented as cocktail culture. Every era projects a fear: exile science, communism, overpopulation, chief wars and, now, existence TV. The State of Panem—which needs to keep a tributaries resigned and a adults complacent—may have combined a Games, though foolish radio is a genuine danger, a means by that multitude pacifies a adults and punishes those who destroy to conform. Will a tie to existence TV, entire today, date a book? It might, though for now, it creates this a right book during a right time. What happens if we select party over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be spooky with grooming, we'll speak funny, and all a sentences will finish with a same arise as questions. When Katniss is sent to stylists to be done some-more telegenic before she competes, she stands exposed in front of them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so distinct people that I'm no some-more mortified than if a contingent of infrequently colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In sequence not to hatred these creatures who are promulgation her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It isn't usually a contestants who risk a detriment of their humanity. It is all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not usually a Games though a fundamental competition for assembly approval. Because this is a initial book in a series, not all is resolved, and what is left unanswered is a executive question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she has given adult to survive, though not either a cost was too high. Readers will wait energetically to learn more.
Megan Whalen Turner is a author of a Newbery Honor book The Thief
and a sequels, The Queen of Attolia
and The King of Attolia
. The subsequent book in a array will be published by Greenwillow in 2010. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a multiplication of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From School Library Journal
Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, a United States of America has collapsed, enervated by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be transposed by Panem, a nation divided into a Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, dual immature member from any district are comparison by lottery to attend in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, partial heartless danger of a subjugated districts, a televised games are broadcasted via Panem as a 24 participants are forced to discharge their competitors, literally, with all adults compulsory to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's immature sister, Prim, is comparison as a mining district's womanlike representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her masculine counterpart, Peeta, a son of a city baker who seems to have all a fighting skills of a pile of bread dough, will be pitted opposite bigger, stronger member who have lerned for this their whole lives. Collins's characters are totally picturesque and sensitive as they form alliances and friendships in a face of strenuous odds; a tract is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will really ring with a era lifted on existence shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book one of a designed trilogy.
Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK Copyright © Reed Business Information, a multiplication of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* This is a grand-opening storm in a new array by a author of a Underland Chronicles. Sixteen-year-old Katniss poaches food for her widowed mom and small sister from a timberland outward a authorised fringe of District 12, a lowest of a dozen districts forming Panem, a North American dystopic state that has transposed a U.S. in a not-too-distant future. Her sport and tracking skills offer her good when she is afterwards expel into a nation’s annual Hunger Games, a quarrel to a genocide where contestants contingency conflict oppressive terrain, artificially concocted continue conditions, and dual teenaged contestants from any of Panem’s districts. District 12’s second “tribute” is Peeta, a baker’s son, who has been in adore with Katniss given he was five. Each new tract turn ratchets adult a tension, relocating a story brazen and gripping a reader on edge. Although Katniss might be learned with a crawl and arrow and skilful during examining her opponents’ subsequent moves, she has most to learn about personal sentiments, generally her own. Populated by three-dimensional characters, this is a glorious story of earthy adventure, domestic suspense, and romance. Grades 9-12. --Francisca Goldsmith
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1599 of 1704 people found a following examination helpful.
Engaging. Brutal, yet engaging!
By Michael A. Behr
Wow. we was hardly means to put this book down for a second after a initial few pages got me totally hooked. Suzanne Collins account here has an immediacy to it that, when total with a unequivocally thespian life-or-death plot, is impossibly compelling. It's entertaining, and impossibly unfortunate all during once. If this was merely a good read, we would have given it 4 stars, yet they contend good art leaves we altered after we knowledge it... and this book unequivocally did that. Suzanne Collins has, with one extraordinary work, propelled herself onto my tip shelf.
Parents, premonition emptor! The storyline is brutal. Even yet a essay is geared for immature adults, a categorical characters are teenagers, there's unequivocally small earthy romance, and a tangible assault would substantially count as PG-13 nowadays... it's substantially one of a many terrifying books I've examination in a unequivocally prolonged time! Right adult there with George R.R. Martin, if not some-more so. Remember what we schooled from Jaws: we don't indeed need to SEE a shark in sequence for it to be terrifying. Sometimes not observant a shark is even worse.
The story is fundamentally about a teen who is forced to contest in a 24-man-enter-1-man-leaves event. we don't wish to spoil it by observant any more, yet if we favourite The Running Man, you'll unequivocally like this. And if you're immature adequate that we don't remember The Running Man, nor did we get a Thunderdome reference, afterwards I'm usually approach too old. But take an aged fogey's recommendation and examination this book.
Amazon, when can we preorder book 2???
719 of 831 people found a following examination helpful.
Game on!
By E. R. Bird
Clearly Gregor was merely a prelude. Suzanne Collins, you've been holding out on us, missy. As an author we were accustomed to your fun adventures involving a boy, his sister, and a universe underneath a world. we consider it's satisfactory to contend that we weren't unequivocally awaiting something like The Hunger Games. At slightest we wasn't. But reading it gave me a horribly informed feeling. There is a certain aria of book that can hypnotize we into desiring that we are in another time and place roughly 2.3 seconds after we put that book down. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer could remonstrate me that there were simply not adequate canned products in my home. And The Hunger Games? Well as we walked down a travel we was underneath a disctinc sense that there were dark cameras everywhere, charting my swell home. Collins has created a book that is exciting, poignant, thoughtful, and monumental by turns. It ascends to a tip forms of a scholarship novella genre and will emanate all new fans for a writer. One of a best books of a 2008 year.
Life in District 12 isn't easy for Katniss and her family. Ever given her father died a lady has spent her time saving her mom and small sister Prim from starvation by sport on banned land. But misfortune of all is reaping day. Once a year a supervision chooses dual children from any of a twelve districts to contest opposite one another in a live and televised existence show. Twenty-four kids and teenagers enter, and usually one survives. When Prim's name is called, Katniss exchanges herself though perplexity to contest alongside a baker's child Peeta. To tarry in this diversion we need to win a heart of your audience, and so District 12's trainers come adult with a plan. Why not make it as if Peeta and Katniss were in adore with one another? But in a diversion where usually one chairman can live, Katniss will have to use all her brains, wits, and instincts to establish who to trust and how to dupe a game's creators.
I described a tract of this book to my husband, quite a partial where Katniss and Peeta feign being in adore to benefit a audience's capitulation and a unequivocally initial thing he pronounced was, "Oh! That's a tract of They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Then we mentioned that it took place in a destiny and that supervision leaders set adult teenagers to quarrel one another to a genocide and he said, "Battle Royale". So sure, there are tools of this tract that have been finished before. You could contend it's The Game meets Spartacus with some Survivor thrown in for spice. But that's not what creates a book good or bad, is it? Some of a biggest works of novel out there, regardless of a readerships' age, comes about when an author takes trite or informed themes and afterwards creates them wholly new by a luminosity of their possess writing. Harry Potter wouldn't have been any good shakes if it weren't for Rowling's storytelling. Similarly, Collins takes ideas that have positively seen a light of day before and concocts an amazingly addictive text. About a time we get to a fifth section that ends with a judgment that army we to examination on, you're scratching your conduct wondering how a heck she DOES that.
Your story mostly rests on a shoulders of a protagonist. Is this a plausible character? Do we base for him or her? Because fundamentally it is a unequivocally tough thing to emanate a "good" chairman on a page that your reader is going to tumble in adore with. Because we readers know that we are flawed, we are mostly prone to side with a likewise injured people we accommodate between a book's covers. Katniss, on a other hand, is so good in so many ways. She sacrifices herself for her sister. She tries to save people in a game. But there's roughly a jock genius to her too. Katniss can figure out a puzzles and problems in a game, yet when it comes to romantic complexity she's infrequently adult a tree. Most conspicuous to me was a fact that Katniss could travel around, preoccupied to romance, and not bug me. Seriously, zero gets underneath my skin faster than heroines who can't see that their associate fellas are jonesing for them. You usually wish to bonk a ladies upside a conduct with a section or something. The opposite here is maybe a fact that given Katniss knows that Peeta has to play a part, she uses that forgive (however unconsciously) to clear his ostensible adore for her. Thems intelligent writing.
Oh! And did we discuss a discourse during all? The humor? Yep, there's humor. We're articulate about a story where teenagers craving for blood, and Katniss is removing in lines about her trainers like, "And then, since it's Effie and she's apparently compulsory by law to contend something awful..." Good stuff. The difference cocktail off a page. And afterwards there's a fact that we're traffic with a dystopian novel where a author has somehow managed to emanate a plausible future. No mistake jargon here, or infrequent references to archaic dolphins. There are some animals that were scientifically altered, yet we can't have a destiny though a integrate cold sum like that, right?
In general, this book throws a large fat wrench into a child book/girl book perspective of child/teen literature. People adore to impersonate books by gender. It stars a boy? Boy book. A girl? Girl book. Now take a prolonged extensive demeanour during a initial book in a Hunger Games Trilogy. It stars a girl... and a child too. There's a lot of hunting, fighting, and survival... and a lot of romance, kisses, and cold outfits. There's strategy, a world's many fanciful conform designer, weapons and a lady who knows how to fight. This is not a book that sensitively slots into a preconceived stereotypes. And we know what happens to books that camber genders? They sell unequivocally good indeed. That is, if we can get both boys and girls to examination them.
The age range? Well, for many of this story we would have pronounced 10 and up. we mean, yeah a simple grounds is that a lot of teenagers go around murdering one another, and certain there's some intrigue to understanding with, yet nothing of it unequivocally seems inappropriate... until a final genocide stage appears in a book. we won't give any details, yet sufficient it to contend it is gruesome. There are clear fear elements to it as well, so with that in mind we am upping my recommendation to 12 and up. I'm certain that there are 10-year-olds out there who've seen most worse things on cable, usually as there are 12-year-olds who'll weird out 10 pages in. Still, I'm some-more gentle recommending it for a comparison kids rather than a younger. You'll see why.
It occurs to me that there has never been a quintessential unconventional gladiator book for kids. That is positively a roughest tenure we can give this book. Now I'm not a chairman who cries simply when she reads something, quite something for kids. Yet as we was holding a sight to Long Island we found myself ripping adult over poignant tools of this story. It's good. And it's so absurd that a work of scholarship novella like this could even be so good. You consider of unconventional locus tales and your mind now sinks to a lowest common denominator. What Collins has finished here is set adult a array that will penetrate a teeth into readers. The destiny of this book will go one of dual ways. Either it will sojourn an unappreciated cult classical for years to come or it will be entirely appreciated right from a start and lauded. My income lies with a latter. A contender in a possess right.
321 of 382 people found a following examination helpful.
The Hunger Games - Definitely value reading!
By Jay R. Chase
It took me a while to get to this book since we never saw it out of my dual daughters' hands. They devoured it! Once we examination it, we understood. This is a second book we have reviewed this month that had a absolute womanlike protagonist (other being 'Graceling').
I found a book to be good created with a illusory pacing. Their is assault in there, yet not so over a tip as to be distracting. Intimate scenes are sparingly created so as not to be too embarassing (something we severely appreciated as a dad!!) The fury opposite a complement thesis is prevalent adequate to notice, yet not as rude as say.... Ayn Rand or Terry Pratchett.
All in all, we rarely suggest this book for kids from 12 up. The finale leads me to trust that this will be a series. we suppose we will be pre-ordering as shortly as it's available. Congratulation Ms. Collins!!
All a best,
Jay
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