Orson Scott Card
1) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment.
Author
Series
Women of Genesis volume 3
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rachel and Leah is book three in New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card's Women of Genesis series-a unique reimagining of the biblical tale.
Tracing their lives from childhood to maturity, Card shows how the women of Genesis change each other-and are changed again by the holy books that Jacob brings with him.
Leah, the oldest daughter of Laban, whose "tender eyes" prevent her from fully participating in the daily work of her nomadic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Bean and other members of Ender's Dragon Army return to Earth after their victory in the Formic War. All but Bean are soon mysteriously kidnapped; Bean turns to Ender's brother Peter for help.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experience the thrill of reading Ender's Game all over again
Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card's classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA authors, military strategists, including:
Ender prequel series coauthor Aaron Johnston on Ender and the evolution of the child hero
Burn Notice creator Matt Nix on Ender's Game as a guide to life
Hugo award–winning writer...
Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card's classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA authors, military strategists, including:
Ender prequel series coauthor Aaron Johnston on Ender and the evolution of the child hero
Burn Notice creator Matt Nix on Ender's Game as a guide to life
Hugo award–winning writer...
8) Swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
9) Xenocide
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1996.
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...
11) Ender in exile
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
At the close of "Ender's Game," Andrew Wiggin--called Ender--is told that he can no longer live on Earth. The 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begins the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.
Author
Series
Fleet school volume 1
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
14) Rebekah
Author
Series
Women of Genesis volume 2
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Born into a time and place where a woman speaks her mind at her peril, and reared as a motherless child by a doting father, Rebekah grew up to be a stunning, headstrong beauty. She was chosen by God for a special destiny.
Rebekah leaves her father's house to marry Isaac, the studious young son of the Patriarch Abraham, only to find herself caught up in a series of painful rivalries, first between her husband and his brother Ishmael, and later between...
15) The Hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
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.
16) Magic street
Author
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Earth awakens
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A latest entry in the Ender's Game prequel series that includes Earth Afire follows an invasion of terraforming aliens on Earth, which is complicated by politics and power struggles until a small band of humans organize a desperate defense.
19) Wakers
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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.
Laz is a side-stepper: he has the power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. This time he wakes up in a cloning facility on a seemingly abandoned...
20) Empire
Author
Series
Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English