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1) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
xxx, 382 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, is called to aid in the investigation of two deaths when a race of sapient beings is discovered on the planet Lusitania.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Ender's Game, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning international best seller, comes the parallel novel, Ender's Shadow. In the first book, child-hero Ender Wiggin battles a deadly alien race and wins. But Ender wasn't the only child in his Battle School. There was also Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend- the only one who was with him in the final battle. Now Bean's whole story is...
4) Xenocide
Author
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Physical Desc
xi, 592 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[c1996]
Physical Desc
351p
Language
English
Description
In the not-too-distant future, after a scientific innovation allows researchers to open a window on the past, a young woman sends an individual onto a slightly different path in life, interference that has unexpected repercussions for the present and future
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One planet.
Three sapient species living peacefully together.
And one deadly virus that could wipe out every world in the Starways Congress, killing billions.
Is the only answer another great Xenocide?
7) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The warring nations and corporations of Earth struggle to establish a truce as an imminent alien invasion approaches.
Author
Series
Homecoming volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Wakers
Author
Series
Side-step volume Book 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
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.
11) Lost and Found
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Are you really a thief?"
That's the question that has haunted fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he's not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower-a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must have stolen them in the first place? If only there were some way to use Ezekiel's micropower for good, to...
12) Visitors
Author
Series
Pathfinder volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--