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81) The 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...
Author
Series
Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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.
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
85) Shadow puppets
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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.
86) Ruins
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
From the author of Ender's Game, the soon-to-be major motion picture! A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls "an epic in the best sense." When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that...
87) Pathfinder
Author
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.
88) Ender's war
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Ender's Game: He was the third of his parents' children to be monitored. Peter, his older brother, had been too uncontrollably violent; Valentine, his sister, seemed incapable of violence altogether. So they pinned their hopes on Andrew Wiggin - nicknamed Ender- and took him to Battle School to begin his military education. He was six years old. Speaker For the Dead: Because of their vague resemblance to certain creatures of old Earth, the people...
Author
Series
Formic Wars volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When the alien ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the far-flung human mining ships and supply stations and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth, and on Luna, corporate power struggles seemed more urgent than distant deaths. In this...
91) Wakers
Author
Series
Side step trilogy volume 1
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...
93) Earth afire
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War. Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn't believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame. And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast...
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 2
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2010], �2007
Language
English
Description
Alvin Maker is awakening to many mysteries: his own strange powers, the magic of the American frontier, and the special virtues of its chosen people, the Native Americans. Alvin has discovered his own unique talent for making things whole again. Now he summons all his powers to prevent the tragic war between Native Americans and the white settlers of North America.
99) Visitors
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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"--
100) Hidden empire
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Card's bestselling novel "Empire," President Averell Torrent launches America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance. When Captain Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman sees the danger Torrent poses to American democracy and the potential disasters involved in his foreign military adventures, he quickly runs afoul of Torrent and, while on the run, finds proof that Torrent orchestrated a presidential assassination.
