Scott Brick
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Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Ender saga volume 05
Ender's Game
Shadow saga volume 01
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Ender saga volume 05
Ender's Game
Shadow saga volume 01
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
780L
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English
Description
You can't step into the same river twice, but Card has gracefully dipped twice into the same inkwellAonce for Ender's Game and again for this stand-alone "parallel novel." The course readers will follow this time is of the superhuman child Bean. Raised on streets ruled by starving children's gangs, he was too weak, at age four, to hold peanuts in his hand, but ingenious enough to trick the other children into civilizing themselvesAand to keep himself...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
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 gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School. For Earth...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
860L
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English
Description
Ender Wiggin's adopted world of Lusitania, with its three sentient species and his oldest friend Jane, a computer intelligence, are threatened by a fleet of ships sent by the Starways Congress, but with the help of two new beings created by Ender's mind, the planet may still be saved.
4) Xenocide
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
When the fleet sent to destroy the planet of Lusitania vanishes, a child with the most brilliant mind in the world is given the task of discovering what happened, and the fate of three races rests with her findings.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "Ender's Shadow," in which the child-warriors, heroes of the Formic War, have returned to their families on Earth only to become the pawns of nations who want to use them as weapons in their quest for sovereignty.
6) Pathfinder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
920L
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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Peter Wiggin, leader of the worldwide government in the aftermath of the victory over the alien Formics, makes a tactical error when he arranges for the rescue of his archenemy Achilles who is being held by the Chinese, only to learn Achilles is insane and determined to kill Bean, the genetic anomaly who served as second-in-command during the conflict.
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
During his first year at the Battle School--where it is against the rules to celebrate religious holidays--Ender decides to give one of his classmates a holiday gift, and starts a fight between the students.
10) Seventh son
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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Come fall in love with a magical America that might have been ... From the 18th century into the early years of the 19th, Americans traveling to find new homes and new lands crossed the Appalachian Mountains and moved across the Northwest Territory, spreading west to the banks of the great river. Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled a continent, and the beliefs of the tribes who were there before them, Orson Scott Card...
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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.
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English
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It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever then for a long, long time. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years. It allowed great plans to be put into motion. It allowed interstellar empires to be built. It came near to destroying humanity. After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a...
13) Red Prophet
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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Alvin Maker is drawn into the political maneuverings of his visionary brother and a French colonel exiled to Fort Detroit named Napoleon Bonapart, in this tale set in the frontier of a magical alternate America.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
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A compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
A dramatization written by Orson Scott Card, based on his bestselling novel and the upcoming theatrical film release. Seventy years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A dramatization written by Orson Scott Card, based on his bestselling novel and the upcoming theatrical film release. Seventy years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.