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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children-the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten, a fading ansible signal speaking of events...
2) Ender's game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Once again, the Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin is brilliant, ruthless, and cunning, a tactical and strategic master, and a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions?...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos, a large colony of humans, and the Hive Queen, who was brought there by Ender Wiggin. But now, once again, the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Ender's oldest friend, Jane, an evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient species of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then...
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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At the close of "Ender's Game," Andrew Wiggin--called Ender--is told that he can no longer live on Earth. The 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begins the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The Ender Saga continues with Shadow of the Giant, which parallels the events of Ender's Game from a different character's point of view.
Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success...
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Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Card's bestselling novel "Empire," President Averell Torrent launches America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance. When Captain Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman sees the danger Torrent poses to American democracy and the potential disasters involved in his foreign military adventures, he quickly runs afoul of Torrent and, while on the run, finds proof that Torrent orchestrated a presidential assassination.
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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...
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Series
Ender Wiggin volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
12) The hive
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Second Formic War volume 2
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English
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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.
"A coalition of Earth's nations barely fought off the Formics' first scout ship. Now it's clear that there's a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth's warring nations...
13) Visitors
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Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Rigg's journey comes to an epic and explosive conclusion as everything that has been building up finally comes to pass, and Rigg is forced to put his powers to the test in order to save his world and end the war once and for all"--
Rigg possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people's pasts. He joined forces with another teen with special talents on a quest to find Rigg's sister and discover the true depth and significance...
15) The swarm
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Second Formic War volume 1
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...
16) Ruins
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Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
To prevent the destruction of his planet, teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility when he and others travel back 11,000 years to the arrival of human starships.
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Writers of the future volume 30
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English
Description
Celebrate New Writers; New Winners; New Worlds. Writers of the Future: Volume 30: This is your window into incredible worlds of wizardry, warfare and wonder. This is your escape into fantastic realms of the human mind lurking just beyond your imagination…and reaching deep into your wildest dreams. This is your ticket to tomorrow. Celebrate the future of science fiction and fantasy…now. Included: Bonus short stories by Orson Scott Card, Mike Resnick...
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Collection of three novellas plus the original "Enders Game," the journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. "The Polish Boy" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender, they believe they may have found their man, or boy. In "Teacher's Pest," a brilliant but insufferably arrogant...
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2014
Language
English
Description
The editors have selected their all-time favorite science fiction novelettes from the magazine's eight-year history and reprinted them together in one big book of reading pleasure. Anything that is remotely possible, futures near and far, artificial intelligence and alien encounters, alternate timelines and alternate theories about creating universes, planet-eating black holes and lunar racetracks, it's all here.
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English
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The Authorized Ender Companion is a complete and in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in Orson Scott Card's Ender Universe. Written by Jake Black under the editorial supervision of Card himself, The Authorized Ender Companion will be an invaluable resource for readers of the series.
If you ever wondered where Ender went after he left Earth, before he arrived at Lusitania, you'll find the answer here. If you ever wondered...
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