The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, 374 pp.
In the North America of the future, the country of Panam controls its citizens with fear and hunger. Every year 24 teen-agers selected by drawing to compete in a 24-enter-1-survives televised fight to the death called the Hunger Games. The lone winner receives honor and rewards for the district they represent. The losers...die trying. Sixteen year old Katniss becomes the representative of District 12 by volunteering to compete in her younger sister's place. Many of her competitors are bigger and stronger, some are weaker, and one is the boy from her own district who has professed his love for her. A riveting, if brutal, story.
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