Orson Scott Card
1) Ender's game
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Series
Ender Wiggin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
Orson Scott Card's The Lost Gate is the first book in the Mithermages series from the New York Times bestselling author of Ender's Game.
Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different, and that he was different from them. While his cousins were learning how to create the things that commoners called fairies, ghosts, golems, trolls, werewolves, and other such miracles that were the heritage of the North family, Danny worried that...
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Ender Wiggin volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos, a large colony of humans, and the Hive Queen, who was brought there by Ender Wiggin. But now, once again, the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Ender's oldest friend, Jane, an evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient species of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then...
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First Formic War volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel, Ender in Exile.
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...
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Series
First Formic War volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.
Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would
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Series
Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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11) Earth Afire
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, 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.
12) The hive
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Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Language
English
Description
A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
13) Pathfinder
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Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Magic street
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Living in a prosperous African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles is Mack Street, a mystery child. Abandoned by his birth mother, Mack passes from family to family, a boy surrounded by people yet deeply alone. He realizes how different he is from others the day he sees a narrow house. Passing through the magic house that no one else can see, Mack is plunged into a realm in which time and reality are skewed. There, what Mack does has strange effects...
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War.
17) Ruins
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Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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To prevent the destruction of his planet, teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility when he and others travel back 11,000 years to the arrival of human starships.
18) The Swarm
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Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Language
English
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Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. 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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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George Galen is a brilliant gene scientist who has created a method to alter human DNA to “improve” people and make them compliant to his will. Frank Hartman, working for the government's biohazard agency, knows how to neutralize Galen's system, making him the one man who stands in the way of Galen's plan.
20) Visitors
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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"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"--