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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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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...
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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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. 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...
4) 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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane. He has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases but also to "improve people": make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly...and make them compliant to his will.
Frank Hartman is also a brilliant virologist, working for the government's ultra-secret biohazard agency. He has discovered how to neutralize Galen's
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Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 4
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
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Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
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,...
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Fleet school volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse novel in years.Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Cards bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Enders Shadow series.Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the...
9) 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.
10) Earth afire
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Series
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War. Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn't believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame. And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast...
12) Keeper of dreams
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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.
14) Earthfall
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Series
Homecoming saga volume 4
Publisher
ORB
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Author
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.
16) Empire
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Series
Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Series
Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Language
English
Description
The novel that launched the bestselling Ender's Shadow series—available for the first time on unabridged cd
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
19) Earthborn
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 5
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
20) Hidden empire
Author
Series
Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2009
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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