In the distant future everyone between the ages of 12 and 18 must enter their names into the lottery for the Hunger Games – a competition to the death in which only one person can survive. Every year on the day of the Reaping, 2 teens (a boy and a girl) are chosen from each of the 12 districts in the country of Panem (formerly the United States). Unfortunately for Katniss Everdeen, the boy who is chosen from her district is Peeta Mellark, the same boy who saved her from starvation years ago and she has just volunteered to take her younger sister Prim’s place in the games. Now her only hope is that someone else will kill Peeta before she has to...

-Maria