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Ender's game / Orson Scott Card.

Card, Orson Scott, (author.).

Summary:

Once again, the Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin is brilliant, ruthless, and cunning, a tactical and strategic master, and a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions? After all, Battle School is just a game. Isn't it?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780765378484
  • ISBN: 0765378485
  • Physical Description: 380 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Third Tor Teen edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Tor, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
"Basis for the major motion picture"--P. 1 of cover.
Includes excerpt from Enders shadow.
Target Audience Note:
780L Lexile.
780L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.5 16 28441.
Subject: Wiggin, Ender (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Wiggin, Peter (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Genetic engineering > Fiction.
War games > Fiction.
Genre: Science fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 4 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Cass County.

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cass County Library-Harrisonville YA CAR 2014 (Text) 0002206031722 Young Adult Fiction Checked out 05/02/2024

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Ender's Game
Ender's Game
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Ender's Game


From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game -- adapted to film in 2013 starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford -- is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war. 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 drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender's Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind Ender's Shadow series Ender's Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Children of the Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm / The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts / First Meetings

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