The Hunger Games: Movie Tie-in Edition

Suzanne Collins

Feb 2012 · Scholastic Inc.

About this ebook

The New York Times bestselling The Hunger Games, with an all-new cover from the major motion picture! The astonishing bestseller is now a fantastic movie. Here is the original novel with new movie artwork on the cover. (Original cover version also available.) In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Ratings and reviews

I give this book five stars, I bought all three books for my boys to read and I ended up reading all three in a week. Didn't let them touch book 2 until I was done. I would like to have seen a fourth book that goes on with the issues they went through that was jumped over. (I don't want to give to much away about 3rd book) I loved these books and plan on rereading them to see what I missed. And I am not a person to reread a book. I am 36 years old and would recommend it to anyone.

I just wish mony was not here my sister has the books and I read them then we moved and my mom got rid of them she thought I liked it to much. So I came to the store and hoped so much that is did not cost any thing but I was rong I know it was so impossable. I only read it once and I loved them. I wish there was more so I made a hunger games of my own I hope that mine can be a movie but it is going to be really hard.

I have passed this series numerous times in book stores and on the Play Books, but never decided to read it. I saw the movie first and was mortified by the plot line. I decided to give the book a chance, and I loved it. The books fills in the gaps the movie could not (as is the case for most books turned to movies). Give it a shot! It's well worth the read.

About the author

Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Indiana University with a double major in Drama and Telecommunications. Collins went on to receive an M.F.A. from New York University in dramatic writing. Since 1991, she has been a writer for children's television shows. She has worked on the staffs of several shows including Clarissa Explains it All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear and Oswald. She also co-wrote the Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Santa, Baby! and was the head writer for Scholastic Entertainment's Clifford's Puppy Days. Her books include When Charlie McButton Lost Power, The Underland Chronicles, and the Hunger Games Trilogy. Book one of this trilogy, The Hunger Games, became a major motion picture in 2012 with Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence portraying the main character of Katniss Everdeen. Catching Fire, book 2 of the trilogy, became a major motion picture in 2013. Mockingjay - Part One was released as a film in 2014 and Part Two in 2015.