Orson Scott Card
1) Magic street
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Danny grew up in a family compound in Virginia, believing that he alone of his family had no magical power. But he was wrong. Kidnapped from his high school by a rival family, he learns that he has the power to reopen the gates between Earth and the world of Westil.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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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; he is far too powerful. On Westil, Wad is nearly powerless; he lost everything to Danny in their struggle. Even if he can survive the revenge of his enemies, he must still somehow make peace with the Gatemage Daniel North.
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Series
Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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 signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves,...
5) Gatefather
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Series
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English
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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 Gate Mage 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 Gate Mage. The wars between the...
6) The swarm
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Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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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...
7) Wakers
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Laz Hayerian wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he and his companion Ivy Downey are clones, and they must work together--combining their talents to sense and step into and out of timestreams--to save humanity from imminent extinction.
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Series
Homecoming saga volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet, to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. By control of the data banks, and subtle interference in the very thoughts of the people, the artificial intelligence has fulfilled its mission. Having lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its power systems are failing. And on the...
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Series
Publisher
Audio Literature
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Rebekah leaves her father's house to marry Isaac, the studious young son of the storied Sarah and Abraham, only to find herself caught up in a series of painful rivalries, first between her husband and his brother, Ishmael, and later between her sons, Jacob and Esau. Through it all she finds her own relationship with God and does her best to serve His cause in the lives of those she loves.
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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, 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.
11) Keeper of dreams
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
This new collection of Card's short fiction contains 22 stories, including two from the Alvin Maker Universe, with new introductions and commentary on his life and work, all written by Card himself.
12) Prentice Alvin
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Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled.
13) Visitors
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Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 3
Publisher
Brilliance Audio, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2014
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.
14) Lost and found
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Series
MicroPowers novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Though he has a healthy distrust of the police, fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast uses his talent for finding things to help a police detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl.
15) Xenocide
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Days after all communication between Earth and the fleet sent to destroy Lusitania is cut, a young woman named Gloriously Bright is sent to locate the Lusitania Fleet, a mission that exposes her to an artificial intelligence.
Publisher
Smart Pop, an imprint of BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card's classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA authors, military strategists, including: Aaron Johnston on Ender and the evolution of the child hero; Matt Nix on Ender's Game as a guide to life, and Neal Shusterman on the ambivalence toward survival that lies at the heart of Ender's story.
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Series
Ender Wiggin volume 2
Language
English
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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.