Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take the place of her sister to be placed into a revolutionary game called The Hunger Games, where kids kill each other for one to take the crown. Katniss fights for herself and her sister with another boy from her district, Peeta Mellark.
Katniss Everdeen lives in a place called Panem. Panem lies on what used to be North America. Panem is split up into 12 districts. Each year, every district is forced to randomly choose two tributes-one girl and one boy- to fight in the annual Hunger Games. A fight to the death on live television. Katniss Everdeen takes her sisters place when she is called to be the tribute of the 74th annual Hunger Games. Katniss will be trained to kill all the other tributes and be the victor of the 74th annual Hunger Games.
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.