Book Report On Ender's Game

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Ender's game is written by Orson Scott Card. This book is a story about a little boy named Ender. He lives with parents and have two older siblings, peter and valentine. His siblings are highly intelligent, but the international military picked Ender as a leader and forces him to save the world from the buggers, an alien race looking to invade Earth. Ender needed to enter the Battle School to be trained. The school was located on a ship far from earth. As such, Ender was trained by Colonel Graff for the war against the buggers. When Ender arrives at battle school, he had a series of tests and introduced to various battle simulators. In the school, Ender has given his army named Dragon Army . From the battle game, he wins every game because

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