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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game Summary

Content: At home, Peter makes him play "astronauts and buggers," a game in which Ender is always the "bugger" alien, being beaten up by Peter. Peter is murderous and relents only when Valentine intervenes. Peter threatens to kill them both at some point in the future. Later that night, when Peter thinks Ender is asleep, Peter leans over him and tells him that he loves him. Colonel Graff comes to the Wiggin household and asks Ender why he beat Stilson so thoroughly. When Ender explains that he had to win decisively so that no kid would attack him again, Colonel Graff offers him a place at Battle School, a school for the training of young children to become military commanders of the International Fleet. After some persuading by Graff, Ender decides to go. En route to Battle School, Graff deliberately isolates him by telling the other boys that Ender is far superior to them--which quickly is proved true. Ender thus earns many enemies from the start. When one boy named Bernard hits him on the head, Ender grabs the boy's arm and inadvertently sends him flying, breaking his arm.