Ender's Game

Title: Ender's Game

Author: Orson Scott Card

Readability: Grade level Equivalent: 9.0, Lexile Measure: 780L

Genre: Science Fiction

Theme: Science, Character and Values, Friends and Friendship

Characters: Ender, Mother, Father, Peter, Valentine

Awards: ALA 100 Best Books for Teens, ALA Page Turners - Novels for Teens, American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults, Hugo Award - Winner, Margaret A. Edwards Award Book, Nebula Awards - Winner, VOYA Best Summer Reading List

Publication: 1977

Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

ISBN: 0-812-55070-6

Summary: Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is the main character in this story.  It is determined that he has military genius' and may have the key to destroy the alien enemy.   Ender's siblings make it hard for him to fulfill his military duties, due to their jealousy. 

Classroom: This book has a variety of learning opportunities and is field with a large quantity of reading and language arts skills.  Students can use this story to model, identify, and locate irony, symbolism, simile's, foreshadowing activities, personification, theme, metaphors, and locating the climax of the story.