INDEPENDENT READING BOOKS SUMMARIES
Ender's Game is a science fiction book about a war against aliens. These aliens have come twice already and the Earth has barely survived. In preparation for the third wave the smartest children on the planet are being brought together to train as commanders for the new militia. After years of training Ender is chosen as the highest ranked commander. However he is tricked, and inadvertently kills the entire alien population except one single baby. He vows to protect it and regrow their race again.
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Lovely Bones is about a girl who is raped and then murdered and goes to a form of purgatory. In this halfway place she can watch every event unfold down on Earth. Everyone tries to move on in life while at the same time she is trying to come onto terms with her own death. Throughout the years, many people try to find who murdered her but only cause more grievances. At the very end of the book she comes back in the body of a friend of hers and says her last goodbye to her old high school crush. Now able to let go.
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Looking for Alaska is about the adventures of a band of private high school students. It all begins when a boy comes, new to the school and makes friends with a conniving student, the Colonel. He soon falls in love with a girl named Alaska. Together, this trio starts making trouble. Pulling pranks and generally not following the rules. They all grow closer and closer when suddenly Alaska dies. She drives directly into a police car. Her friends are determined to find out what happen. Finally they find solace in one last prank, planned by Alaska in her prime, in tribute to her life.
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