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Ruins / Orson Scott Card.

Card, Orson Scott. (Author).

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From the author of Ender's Game, the soon-to-be major motion picture! A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls "an epic in the best sense." When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh -- a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive -- but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. But they will have little choice. Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he can't yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param can't work together to alter the past, there will be no future. The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling Pathfinder series. - Publisher.
To prevent the destruction of his planet, teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility when he and others travel back 11,000 years to the arrival of human starships.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781416991779
  • ISBN: 1416991778
  • ISBN: 9781416991809
  • ISBN: 1416991808
  • Physical Description: 530 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon Pulse, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Junior Library Guild selection."
Formatted Contents Note:
Water -- Barbfeather -- Night watch -- Battle -- Decisions -- Inside the starship -- Control -- Resentment -- Responsibility -- Foreknowledge -- Yahoos -- Ruined cities -- In the library -- The knife -- Sibling rivalry -- Temporary death -- Trust -- Transit -- Royal -- Larfold -- Companions -- Warning -- Murder -- Destroyers -- New paths.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 12 up.
Young Adult.
790 Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader 5.2.
Reading Counts! 6.2.

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Author Notes

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Orson Scott Byron Walley Card, was born in 1951 and studied theater at Brigham Young University. He received his B.A. in 1975 and his M.A. in English in 1981. He wrote plays during that time, including Stone Tables (1973) and the musical, Father, Mother, Mother and Mom (1974). A Mormon, Scott served a two-year mission in Brazil before starting work as a journalist in Utah. He also designed games at Lucas Film Games, 1989-92. He is best known for his science fiction novels, including the popular Ender series. Well known titles include A Planet Called Treason (1979), Treasure Box (1996), and Heartfire (1998). He has also written the guide called How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (1990). His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead, both won Hugo and Nebula awards, making Card the only author to win both prizes in consecutive years. His titles Shadows in Flight, Ruins and Ender's Game made The New York Times Best Seller List. He is also the author of The First Formic War Series, which includes the titles Earth Unaware, Earth Afire, and Earth Awakens. (Bowker Author Biography)

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