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Hero archetypes
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Synopsis
With millions of copies sold in the US and Canada, and translated into more than 34 languages, The Ender series is one of the best science fiction series ever written. Now repackaged and collected in a box set, The Ender Saga #1 is perfect for new readers and collectors alike. This box set contains five volumes: Ender's Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile
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Is The Ender Saga #1: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
This series depicts intense military violence involving child soldiers, psychological manipulation, and explores heavy themes of genocide and its aftermath. The violence is not gratuitously graphic but is emotionally weighty and includes death.
What to know going in
This book has strong violence, mild sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include child harm, genocide, death, and grief (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Brilliant young people must make impossible choices in a war against aliens, then grapple with the consequences of their actions across multiple worlds.