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Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School
No bookshelf for graphic novels...should probably start one. I LOVE Ender's Game, even tho it took me years of foot-dragging to finally agree to try it. Ender is such a conflicted little boy -- cold-blooded, soft-hearted, and a genius like none other. Is he 'the one' to save the world? The adults behind the scenes of Battle School are trying to find out. They try by challenging him, attempting to break him, isolating him, making him hated by all the other kids...all to see if he is the one.My heart broke for Ender in the novel, and seeing his face in this graphic novel makes it even harder. The artists do an amazing job of using Ender's body language to express the emotions he will never share with anyone. They're all here: Bonzo, Peter, Valentine...tormenting, comforting...The artwork is superb, and expresses the movement of the battles, the futuristic setting of Battle School, and the extreme youth of these soldiers...this is a world that trains babies to save the world...but, is a world that does this worth saving?I already know three or four boys who need to read this. I'll be interested in their analysis...