The hunger games /
Suzanne Collins.
- First edition
- New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
- 374 pages ; 22 cm.
The first book of The Hunger Games trilogy.
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.