The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is about a girl, Katniss Everdeen, and her life as a poor girl in a world where the Capitol rules and makes kids get randomly chosen, one boy and one girl, to put in an arena to fight to the death. Katniss, and a son of the local bread-maker's son, Peta. Peta has liked Katniss secretly for a while now, but their "love" manages to keep the both of them alive because they really do not want to kill each other and have one be the winner or the 74th Hunger Games while the other is dead. She gets a mockingjay pin from the governor of the districts daughter, for good luck (they all wished each other good luck so that they wouldn't have to go in the arena), and it means the world to Katniss, and ends up being the secret symbol for the rebels in the 3rd book. If you haven't read the book, and watched the movie (the book is better though) then you are really missing out on this 21st century hit.