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The Hunger Games

I love tween book series. Back in the day it was Babysitter’s Club (which was awesome) and Sweet Valley, and now it’s Twilight and Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. In case you’ve never heard of it, the trilogy is written by Suzanne Collins (extremely scary looking lady in her 40s) and it’s awesome. To be fair, I’ve only read the first in the series, so maybe it starts to suck, but they are wicked popular. The final book came out at the end of August and they’re already talking about making films! Yay! In the first book, the main character is Katniss (lots of dumb names in this book), who lives in post apocalyptic North America. All of North America was separated into thirteen districts with “The Capitol” which is like Big Brother, controlling everything. There was an uprising and The Capitol pwned everyone and even obliterated District 13. So now there are twelve districts, and as a constant reminder that The Capitol owns their asses, they established The Hunger Games. Each person fr