Orson Scott Card
1) Ender's game
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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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...
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Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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850L
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Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
"Three thousand planet-bound years have fled since Edgar Wiggin won Earth's war with the Formics by totally destroying them. Ender remains young, traveling constantly at relativistic speeds. In three thousand years, the Hive Queen and the Hegemon have become holy writ, and...
3) Xenocide
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Pub. Date
1991
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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Lusitania's three sapient species are in trouble. The starways congress has decided to wipe out the planet to kept a deadly virus from escaping . A fourth intelligence loyal to Ender and Lusitania causes the fleet to disappear. What is the Starways Congress going to do next?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
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The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the...
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2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
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At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
6) Enchantment
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
850L
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In a Russian forest, a New York scholar awakens a sleeping princess with a kiss and she takes him to the 9th century. They are forced to return to the present, pursued by a witch who hijacks an airliner. One adventure follows another and there is a happy ending. By the author of Heartfire.
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
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Alvin Smith arrives at Hatrack River to take up his apprenticeship to become a blacksmith with the works of the Unmaker close at hand.
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2013.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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"In this sequel to The Lost Gate, bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can't control him...and they can't control him. He is far too powerful. And on Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless--he...
9) Magic street
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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When Mack Street discovers an entryway into another world, he discovers his own magical powers and realizes his actions have a strange impact on the real world.
10) Seventh son
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
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Book 1 of The Tales of Alvin Maker.
Young Alvin was born the seventh son of a seventh son. By his birthright, he possesses magical powers and is destined to become something great, perhaps even a Maker. Indeed, Alvin is special. But the boy remains vulnerable to dark forces who reach out to destroy him and are willing to do anything to keep him from growing up. Carefully weaving the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled a continent-...
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Homecoming saga volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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A powerful computer, the Oversoul, has the task of governing human affairs on the planet Harmony and needs to be repaired. Moozh, a great warrior, flouts the Oversoul. Can anyone stop him or will the planet fall?
12) Lost boys
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The Fletcher family moves to Steuben, North Carolina, thinking it will be the right place for them. However, when their eight-year-old son Stevie becomes very withdrawn, they discover that he is being stalked and that other boys have mysteriously disappeared from the town.
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Homecoming saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Oversoul is the master caretaker of the planet Harmony. Its systems are failing and it must go back to Earth for repair.
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Pub. Date
2012
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies.
The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador's telescopes...
15) Pathfinder
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Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
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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.
16) Alvin journeyman
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
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Alvin battles the evil Unmaker in an alternate frontier America where magic and charms actually work.
17) The crystal city
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 6
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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Presents the sixth installment in the alternative history in which Alvin Maker, a man who has the magical ability to create, repair, heal, or destroy, travels to New Orleans where he saves his friends from a deadly plague and takes the first steps toward his envisioned destiny in the Crystal City.
18) Heartfire
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Peggy and Alvin are now married, but Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin has gone north into New England, which is rife with witchcraft, while Peggy has been drawn south, to the British court of King Arthur Stuart in exile, on a quest to set the world on the path to peace.
19) Shadow puppets
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[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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"Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth. Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warrig nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School. But one person...
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2015.
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"In Gatefather, the third installment in the Mithermages series, New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Danny North is the first gatemage to be born on Earth in nearly 2000 years, or at least the first to survive to claim his power. Families of Westil in exile on Earth have had a treaty that required the death of any suspected gatemage. The wars between the...