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Staff Pick--" The future of Earth is in jeopardy..again. But this time there is hope for a future- and it's resting on the shoulders of a bunch of kids. Andrew "Ender" Wiggins, among others, was chosen to attend Battle School, an orbiting space station where children are shaped into the greatest military strategists ever to live. Can Ender survive the grueling training to be the greatest leader the world has ever known? By far one of the greatest stories I've ever read! Chock full of action, suspense and unlikely heroes, this under-dog story is one you'll be thinking about long after you turn the last page. Recommended 14+ for language and content."--Jessica

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Synopsis of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card:
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 the world survives, that is.

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