the hunger games

So Theresa told me all her friends were blogging about a new book called "The Hunger Games" and how good it was. It was the first book in a series - I guess the second book, "Catching Fire," was just released.  Supposedly they are going to make a movie of it. Carson picked it up for me - like Twilight it is for the young adult reader. I honestly could not put it down and I have to go and get the second book.  This is what the book cover says:

"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying 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, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival."