The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

The hunger games is a great book by Suzanne Collins, about a city where each year 2 children from each district- a boy and a girl-were picked to fight to the death. This practice originated as a punishment to the districts for the rebellion against the capital seventy five years ago. But today it goes on only because of the cruelty of the privileged capital people, with the advantage of their children never having to fight. Ever since Katniss Everdeen's father has died she took the responsibility of feeding her family whixh consisted of her 11 year old sister Prim and her mother, who was poor, and could not aupport katniss and her sister. Her sources of feeding her family were through hunting in the woods, which was illegal and punishable by death. since to katniss her family's life was more valuable to her than her own, she risked it so her family did not starve.
Katniss everdeen finds herself in the crowd with her 12 year old sister Prim. Against all odds, Prim's name is selected at the reaping. Katniss runs up and volunteers to take her sisters place. Now katniss everdeen is district 12's girl tribute. When it is time for the boy tribute to be reaped, Peeta Mellark, the bakers son got reaped as district 12s boy tribute. Katniss is not very thrilled with the idea of peta being a part of this, being that he was very kind to her as they were children, by giving her the bakeries burnt bread that she should not starve. The real problem is, if she wants to go back home to feed her family she will have to kill 23 innocent children peeta being one of