Ender's Game (The Graphic Novel)

     Ender's Game, the graphic novel, by Orson Scott Card (who has the title of Creative and Executive Director for the graphic novel), Chris Yost, and Pasqual Ferry is an adaptation of the novel Ender's Game.  I was very interested in reading the graphic novel since I read the novel a while ago. The story takes place in the future, which could be argued as a distopia where children are tested and taken away at a very young age, 6, to train for the military.  The story follows Ender's experiences of being taken away and put into the military academy to train to fight the alien threat.  The reader becomes involved with Ender's struggling emotions as he comes to grips with being seperated from his sister, being a gifted outcast, and the academy pushing him to his limits.

     The art work in the novel is very crisp and seems to be computer graphics, which adds to the futuristic theme to the novel.  Though I enjoyed the original novel to the graphic novel, I feel that this medium would involve reluctant readers because of the amazing art work and that it doesn't "feel" like reading a proper book.  Ender's Game plot and character development connects well with kids and this book can be recommended to students from late elementary school and up.

-Dave Pfeiff