The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

By Maxine

This book is really good. It is about a girl who has to fight to survive!

In more detail, it is about another community in the future and this one has twelve districts that are really poor and one dominant Capitol that is really rich. To keep the districts in line the Capitol randomly chooses one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen from each district to compete in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. There are virtually no rules in this Hunger Games except that the last survivor wins and lives a life of worship and glory. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen from district 12 is selected and put with the other contestants in a very large outdoor arena in the woods filled with appropriate weapons and left to live or die. Katniss chooses to live and fight for what’s right!

In the arena, Katniss faces many horrors, such as bees as big as scorpions, brutal fighters, the torture of making a friend and then watching her die. But Katniss has something the others don’t. And she will use it to her advantage.

 Suzanne Collins tells the story of Katniss with refined detail and purpose and overall it made a great book even if the plot is a little disturbing. The Hunger Games is the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy and the second one is really good too as is the third one so far(I am still reading it).This book is a bit bloody and not exactly what you would call “school appropriate” so I think it is best for fifth grade and up plus some kids might not be allowed to read it, your parents might want to read it first. But if you are allowed to read it, you should definitely go for it. It is available at the Seabury Middle School if you are interested. May your pages forever turn in happiness.