Whats the hunger games about?

[porness]

ACtually, i dont really know what the hunger game is about
would anyone be welcome to tell me wat it is about??
everyone at school is like " HUNGER GAME IS AWESOME!!!! whee "
but i am like " WHATS IT ABOUT???"
i really am clueless! emotion_drool

[i stalk mime]

Its about a pie eating contest. Hurrdurr

[Skeletons On Parade]

Click.

You could take away all of that confusion by reading it, you know.

[WestyLynn]

This article is about the novel. For the film, see The Hunger Games (film). For other uses, see The Hunger Games (disambiguation).
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The Hunger Games
Hunger games.jpg
The North American first edition cover
Author(s) Suzanne Collins
Cover artist Tim O'Brien
Country United States
Language English
Series The Hunger Games trilogy
Genre(s) Adventure
Dystopian
Science fiction
Young adult
Alternative history
Publisher Scholastic
Publication date September 14, 2008
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages 374
ISBN 0-439-02348-3
OCLC Number 181516677
LC Classification PZ7.C6837 Hun 2008
Followed by Catching Fire Mockingjay

The Hunger Games is a young adult novel written by American television writer and novelist Suzanne Collins. It was first published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, in hardcover.[1] It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, holds hegemony over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle until only one person is left.

The book has been released as a paperback and also as an audiobook and e-book. The Hunger Games had an initial print of 200,000 – twice doubled from the original 50,000. Since its initial release, the novel has been translated into 26 languages and rights of production have been sold in 38 countries. The book received mostly positive feedback from major reviewers and authors. The Hunger Games is the first novel in The Hunger Games trilogy,[2] followed by Catching Fire, published on September 1, 2009,[3] and Mockingjay, published on August 24, 2010.[4]

A film adaptation, co-written and co-produced by Collins herself and directed by Gary Ross, was released worldwide on March 23, 2012.

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Strawberry Spring

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You could take away all of that confusion by reading it, you know.

thanks