The hunger games
By Suzanne Collins
- First Scholastic paperback printing, 2009
- New York : Scholastic 2008
- 374 pages : illustrations ; 21cm
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.