The odds were ever in Megan Gething’s favor. The 12-year-old was able to provide medical attention to her friend Mackenzie George when George cut open her calf on Saturday morning — something Gething credits to her reading The Hunger Games.

The youngsters had been playing with some friends in a marsh in Gloucester, Massachusetts when George slipped in the mud next to a metal cofferdam — a watertight structure on enclosure from which water is pumped out so as to expose the bottom of a body of water, allowing for construction or repairs — and sustained a huge gash (10-inches long, 3-inches wide).

“I didn’t feel anything. I thought I just bumped my leg, but when I pulled it up I saw the cut and I started screaming to call 911,” George told The Gloucester Times.

But while their friends panicked, Gething remembered the first book in Suzanne Collins’ best-selling trilogy (that has since been adapted into a four-film series starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutchinson, and Liam Hemsworth) and sprung into action, creating a tourniquet for George’s leg from a friend’s pair of shorts to stem the bleeding, and sending another friend, Zoe Tallgrass, to go get help.

“I knew it from a book I read,” said Gething of her Hunger Games-inspired actions. “I figured it was a well-known method of stopping bleeding.”

George was rushed to the hospital and is since doing fine. Gething’s knowledge prevented her from losing any more blood.