 Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a third - a child born outside of the two child limit with the hope that he will be the one with the talent and the temperment to beat back the Formic, twice near-invaders of a future Earth. When the time is right, Ender is brought to the Battle School, an orbiting military academy designed to mold tomorrow s youth into the future s top commanders. But at the Battle School, ones education consists of more than just classes - Ender fights intensely private battles as well as public ones - Zero G team-based combat missions, the center of life at the school. Are Ender s experiences here a normal by-product of military training in, or are the teachers attempting to plot a greater, harsher fate for Ender?