The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Blurb submitted by James P.
The Hunger Games is fiction

The Hunger Games begins with Katniss Everdeen, a teenage girl in a dystopian future society. In this society, all the people are divided into 12 factions, and she is from the poorest one. In order to keep the people in line the country's leader started what is called the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games take two children between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district and then put them in an arena to fight each other to the death. All the kids are required to gather together to hear the announcement of who is to be chosen. Until this year Katniss's sister wasn't old enough to be chosen and, as luck would have it, she is chosen her first year. Katniss immediately takes advantage of her ability to volunteer to go instead of her sister. She then has to fight to survive, and things go much different than you would expect.

In the first part of the book, Katniss and her whole faction seem somewhat weak. But as it continues and you learn more about her and her faction you begin to understand how strong she really is. In the second part of the book, you see her become who she truly is.

This book kind of reflects our own society in many ways. It teaches young people to stand up to oppression and not to be afraid of authority. It uses a very dystopian society to teach young people that they can be a voice of change in their own society.