The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, has become one of the most popular YA series of all time. In the trilogy, North America has become Panem, an unforgiving and authoritarian regime that controls its citizens by forcing them to send children each year to a televised battle to the death. Katniss Everdeen, a no-nonsense teenager, volunteers to replace her sister, who's been chosen at random to be sent to the Games. At first, Katniss's only thoughts are of survival, but the deeper she gets into the Games, the more she learns about Panem itself, and she begins to see a way to rebel.