The Hunger Games

Author: Collins, Suzanne

General fiction (Children's / Teenage)

Published on 1 December 2011 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Hunger Games' series.

Paperback | 464 pages
128 x 199 x 34 | 320g

The first book in the ground-breakingHunger

Gamestrilogy.

'A violent, jarring, speed-rap of a novel that generates

nearly constant suspense. . . . I couldn't stop reading.'

Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

'I was so obsessed with this book. . . . The Hunger

Games is amazing.' Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight

saga

'Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced.' John

Green, The New York Times Book Review

Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying

reality TV show is taking place.

Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event

called The Hunger Games.

There is only one rule: kill or be killed.

When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her

younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence.

But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival

is second nature.

A major feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson

& Liam Hemsworth

Three books, four films and one worldwide phenomenon, The Hunger

Games changed the face of global YA.

The best-selling prequel to The Hunger Games, The

Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes, is soon to be a major

feature film releasing in November 2023.

OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES

Catching Fire

Mockingjay

The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes