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1) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Once again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius...
Author
Series
Ender saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
850L
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.
"Three thousand planet-bound years have fled since Edgar Wiggin won Earth's war with the Formics by totally destroying them. Ender remains young, traveling constantly at relativistic speeds. In three thousand years, the Hive Queen and the Hegemon have become holy writ, and...
Author
Series
Electronic mediations volume 36
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for the military during the Cold War. To understand their place in contemporary culture, Patrick Crogan argues, we must first understand the military logics that created and continue to inform them. Gameplay Mode situates computer games and gaming within...
Author
Series
Byblos volume 11/2
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
Español
Description
Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
14) Ender's game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
16) Harsh realm
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The dark and fantastic Harsh Realm, a science fiction series about a war fought by flesh-and-blood humans trapped inside virtual reality.
17) Battleship
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the classic Hasbro naval combat game, Battleship is the story of an international fleet of ships who come across an alien armada while on a naval war games exercise. An intense battle ensues over sea, land, and air.
19) War gaming
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the hobby of war games, describing the different kinds and suggesting how to build, paint, and organize miniatures and battlefields and how to make rules for original games.
20) The Third Reich
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown...
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