In the ruins of north america their lies a nation known as panem.There are 12 districts through out panem they surround the capital.Every year they hold the national hunger games were they pick a boy and a girl from each district to fight to the death on live T.V.Sixteen year old Katniss evergreen thinks being picked for the hunger games is a death sentence.When the reaping comes around the unimaginable happens Katniss's sister prim gets picked to be in the hunger games and Katniss rushes and takes her place.She is awating weeks of suffering in the hunger games and she knows that find out what happens next so read the book.