The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a science fiction story about an annual event between two districts that requires two participants to fight to the death in a televised battle. "Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death. In a dark vision of the near future twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: Kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps foward to take her sister's place in the