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Author
Series
Shadow saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
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.
2) Earthfall
Author
Series
Homecoming volume 4
Publisher
T. Doherty
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars.
Author
Series
Homecoming volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The planet called Harmony had been settled by humans nearly 40 million years before. The colony had been placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, the Oversoul, high in orbit. But now the Oversoul itself is in danger - its systems are failing.
Author
Series
First Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) Earth afire
Author
Series
First Formic War volume 2
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
Ender Wiggin saga volume 2
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1991, c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, is called to aid in the investigation of two deaths when a race of sapient beings is discovered on the planet Lusitania.
Author
Series
Ender saga volume 6
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...
Author
Series
Homecoming volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Above the planet Harmony, the computer Oversoul watches. But its systems are failing and the only hope of repair lies a thousand light-years away on the planet Earth, which was left 40 million years ago. Nafai and his family have been chosen to make the great journey home.
9) Space boy
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Jared and his family have to find a way for his older brother, Todd, to rescue teir Mom from the alien world.
10) A war of gifts
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin saga volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn't see it that way. He thinks that giving gifts isn't exactly a religious observation, and on Sinterklaas Day he tucks a present into another student's...
11) The swarm
Author
Series
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. China has been devastated by the Formic's 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...
12) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor, published by Tom Doherty Associates
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.
"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) Earth awakens
Author
Series
First Formic War volume 3
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...
14) Visitors
Author
Series
Pathfinder volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
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. --Provided by publisher.
15) Empire
Author
Series
Empire volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop, and...
16) Xenocide
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin saga volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1996, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
The Starways Congress decides that the deadly virus on Lusitania must be wiped out and sends a fleet to destroy it. After the fleet disappears, Gloriously Bright is selected to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin saga volume 4
Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Ender Wiggin confronts his ultimate challenge when his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by his old planet-destroying weapon, and his ally, Jane, is about to be killed off by the Starways Congress.
Author
Series
Shadow saga volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In a novel of war between humans and aliens, a child warrior from the Battle School, a boy called Bean, becomes the friend, confidant, strategist, and right hand of Ender Wiggin.
Author
Series
Fleet School volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
20) Pathfinder
Author
Series
Pathfinder volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.
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