Teaser: The story of a little boy being sent into the military to help save the world from the Buggers.
Plot Summary: Ender Wiggin is chosen for the soldier training program that the government has made to secure a defense against the Buggers. They are training genius children to become leaders. Ender has to leave his parents, his brother, Peter, and his sister, Valentine, whom he loves deeply. Ender is drafted into the orbiting Battle School. Ender becomes one of the best students and his skills make him a leader and he is respected in the Battle Room. One of his only friends is a tiny boy named Bean, together they create an unstoppable team in the Battle Room and gain the respect of their older peers. In the end the reader will find out if Ender is really the answer the government has been looking for to defeat the Buggers.
Critical Evaluation: Even though Ender is one of the most brilliant child soldiers that Battle School has ever seen he suffers quite a bit. He is very lonely and he receives extreme pressure from his teachers and he suffers isolation and peer pressure. He misses his sister Valentine and when he is able to see her when he is older, it is not the same between them because he has been away for so long.
Author Information: According to http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about.shtml"Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.
Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.
Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a longterm position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret."
Genre: Science Fiction
Curriculum Ties: N/A
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Reading Level/Interest Age: 11+
Challenge Issues: N/A
Why included? I love science fiction and this is one of the top books in the genre.
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