Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . . 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...

Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings of anger and distrust and serve as their pawn. She must accept responsibility for countless lives in order to change the course of the future of Panem. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution...

Author Suzanne Collins broke new ground in YA literature with The Hunger Games, her dark yet teen-appropriate meditation on inequality, rebellion and revolution. With compelling characters, page-turning suspense and a fully realized dystopian future, the novel became an international bestseller — as would the entire trilogy. But when Collins joined forces with director Gary Ross and producer Nina Jacobson to take the first book to the big screen,

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