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Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card
Published 2002 by Starscape Books
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780765342294
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The Earth is under attack from aliens known as “buggers.” The only hope is a brilliant general named Ender Wiggin. The only problem is that he is a child. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
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.
Black: The Birth of Evil (Anniversary)
by Ted Dekker 978-1595547309
Published 2009 by Thomas Nelson Publishers
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781595547309
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An Adrenaline-Laced Epic Where Dreams and Reality Collide.Fleeing assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head . . . and his world goes black. From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world where evil is contained. A world where Thomas Hunter is in love with a beautiful woman. But then he remembers the dream of being chased through an alleyway as he reaches to touch the blood on his head. Where does the dream end and reality begin? Every time he falls asleep in one world, he awakes in the other. Yet in both, catastrophic disaster awaits him . . . may even be caused by him. Some say the world hangs in the balance of every choice we make. Now the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance of one man’s choices.
Bones of Faerie
by Janni Lee Simner
Published 2010 by Random House Books for Young Readers
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780375845659
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Fifteen-year-old Liza travels through war-ravaged territory in a struggle to bridge the faerie and human worlds and to bring back her mother while learning of her own powers and that magic can be controlled. The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza’s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to see–into the past, into the future–and she has no choice but to flee her town. Liza’s quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds.
Janni Lee Simner’s first novel for young adults is a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fiction–as familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique. “From the Hardcover edition.”
Lord of the Kill
by Theodore Taylor
Published 2004 by Scholastic Paperbacks
Mass Market Paperbound, English. ISBN: 9780439559560
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When a half-eaten body is found inside a locked jaguar cage, eighteen-year-old Ben Jepson knows it’s no prank – someone is trying to make trouble for the Los Coyotes Big Cat Preserve and its manager, Ben’s father. An outspoken conservationist, Dr. Jepson has made some powerful enemies. Ben’s parents are on a tiger conservation mission deep in the jungle. Now Ben is the only one who can keep Los Coyotes running. But when his beloved tiger Dmitri, nicknamed “Lord of the Kill,” is kidnapped, Ben must decide whether to wait for the authorities or to strike out on his own.
The Sight
by David Clement-Davies
Published 2007 by Puffin Books
Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780142408742
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In the shadow of an abandoned castle, a wolf pack seeks shelter. the she-wolf as pups will not be able to survive the harsh transylvanian winter. And they are being stalked by a lone wolf, Morgra, possessed of a mysterious and terrifying power known as the sight. Morgra knows that one of the pups born beneath the castle holds a key to power even stronger than her ownapower that could give her control of this world and the next. but the pack she hunts will do anything to protect their own, even if it means setting in motion a battle that will involve all of nature, including the creature the wolves fear the most a Man.
School’s Out-Forever
by James Patterson
Published 2007 by Warner Vision
Mass Market Paperbound, English. ISBN: 9780446618892
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“Adventure, fighting, backstabbing and love abound” (VOYA) in this action-packed follow-up to the #1 New York Times blockbuster MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT, now available in paperback. The heart-stopping quest of six winged kids–led by fourteen-year-old Max–to find their parents and investigate the mind-blowing mystery of their ultimate destiny continues when they’re taken under the wing of an FBI agent and attempt, for the first time, to live “normal” lives. But going to school and making friends doesn’t stop them from being relentlessly hunted by sinister spies, who lead Max to face her most frightening match yet: a new and better version of herself.
