The nation of Panem is a Capitol surrounded by twelve districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before; and survival, for her, is second nature. But if she is to