Ender's Shadow

<p>Welcome to Battleschool. </p><p>Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains.</p><p>Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.</p><p>What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival.</p><p>Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.</p><p><i>Ender's Shadow </i>is the book that launched The Shadow Series, and the parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, <i>Ender's Game</i>.</p>