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1) Ender's game
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Accelerated Reader
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
Lexile measure
850L
Description
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
Accelerated Reader
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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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"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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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Now that Bean and three of his children have fled to the stars they become cut off from Earth's scientists and are forgotten. But they are about to discover a derelict Formic colony ship on which they find the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and a mysterious, deadly disease that killed the ship's colony and may now kill them.
10) The last shadow
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"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...