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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts....
2) Ender's game
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut - young Ender is the Wiggin...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed bestselling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's Game. In Ender's Game, the world's most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training academy. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity."--Publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When the alien ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the far-flung human mining ships and supply stations and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth, and on Luna, corporate power struggles seemed more urgent than distant deaths. In this...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Set during Enders first years at Battle School, where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. However, after a small act of rebellion sets off a battle royal between the students and staff, some surprising alliances form when Ender comes up against a new student.
Author
Series
Publisher
Turtleback Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more. But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heroes; they are potential weapons that can...
12) Shadow puppets
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As the nations of the earth attempt to control the children trained at Battle School, Peter Wiggin continues to consolidate his power with the help of Bean and Petra.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Bean, nearing death, and his wife Petra search for their stolen children with the help of their former Battle School classmates while Peter Wiggin attempts to restore world government with himself as hegemon.
14) The swarm
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage...
15) The last shadow
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe-the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it were allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out...
16) Xenocide
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
©1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Lusitania seems to be a planet on which three intelligent species--humans, the pequininos, and the Hive Queen--can finally live together, until a virus dangerous to humans but vital to the pequininos is found, and the Starways Congress orders Lusitania and its inhabitants to be destroyed.
17) The hive
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
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