num_pages: 469
description: Welcome to Battleschool.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.Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.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.Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.Ender's Shadow is the book that launched The Shadow Series, and the parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game.
language: English
title: Ender's Shadow
titlecomplete: Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
characters: Sister Carlotta, Volescu, Nikolai Delphiki, Andrew Wiggin, "Bean", Poke
genres: Audiobook, Novels, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, War, Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space
ratings_count: 169421
places: Rotterdam, Battle School
series: The Shadow Series, Enderverse:  Publication Order, The Enderverse
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Starscape