The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games — Content Guide for Parents
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- ViolenceCentral
- Scary contentCentral
- ProfanityBrief
- Gender rolesBriefChallenges traditional roles, Traditional roles
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- Religion
- Race & culture
- Climate
- Sexual content
- Gender & orientation
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Religion
PRESENTContains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.
About this book
One boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and sixteen are selected by lottery to play. The winner brings riches and favor tohis or her district. But that is nothing compared to what the Capitol wins: one more year of fearful compliance with its rule. 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 impoverished district in the Games.
But Katniss has been close to dead before -- and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
Acclaimed writer Suzanne Collins, author of the New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles, delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.
Frequently asked questions
Is The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games appropriate for a 7-year-old?
Twenty-four teens are forced to fight to the death in an arena, with stabbings, arrows, animal attacks and burning shown throughout the story. Children kill each other in an arena, with realistic injuries, a mauled face, deadly insect stings and wolves, and the world outside is shown as starving and cruel.
Does The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games have violence?
Found (Central): Twenty-four teens are forced to fight to the death in an arena, with stabbings, arrows, animal attacks and burning shown throughout the story.
Does The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games have scary content?
Found (Central): Children kill each other in an arena, with realistic injuries, a mauled face, deadly insect stings and wolves, and the world outside is shown as starving and cruel.
Does The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games have religion?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games have race & culture?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games have profanity?
Found (Brief): The parents' guide says the text uses "hell" and otherwise only describes cursing without printing it.
Does The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games have climate?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games have sexual content?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games have gender roles?
Found (Brief, Challenges traditional roles, Traditional roles): The parents' guide says Katniss hunts and provides for her family outside gender norms but is pushed into a feminine stereotype in her love story with Peeta.
Does The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games have gender & orientation?
Not found in the sources we checked.
