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From Orson Scott Card, the bestselling author of Ender's Game, and his daughter Emily Janice Card, comes a 384-page omnibus edition containing the first two books of an all-ages manga series!
Out of deep space, a mysterious alien race known as "The Givers" came to Earth. They gave the human race the greatest technology ever seen―four giant towers known as Ladders that rose 36,000 miles into space. Each tower culminated in a space station that harnessed the energy of the Sun to power the entire planet. As suddenly as the Givers arrived, they vanished, leaving the human race with one solemn instruction: maintain and preserve the Ladders at all costs. Due to the unique alien construction of the Laddertop space stations, however, only a skilled crew of children could perform the maintenance necessary to keep the stations running.
Twenty-five years later, back on Earth, competition is fierce to enter Laddertop Academy. Robbi and Azure, two eleven-year-old girls who are best friends, are among those vying for a spot at the prestigious academy. While one is rejected, the other takes off into space for the adventure of a lifetime. Yet soon, their destinies will collide, as they must decipher an alien message and solve an ancient mystery that could either save the Earth from invasion...or trigger its imminent destruction.
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ORSON SCOTT CARD wrote the bestselling novels Ender's Game, The Lost Gate, and Pathfinder. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
EMILY JANICE CARD is an award-winning reader of audiobooks, including The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott and Podkayne of Mars. She also wrote, co-directed, and acted in Jane Austen's Fight Club.
HONOEL A. IBARDOLAZA is an award-winning illustrator of children's books and manga, including The Greediest of Rajahs and the Whitest of Clouds. He lives in the Philippines.
Although the premise of the story sounds eerily like one of Card’s other works, Laddertop twists the space-opera genre enough to keep readers new to science fiction intrigued. When two 11-year-old girls graduate from Laddertop Academy, one ascends to the top of the giant, alien-made Ladder to a space station constructed in such a way that only children are able to maintain its functionality. The other girl, who did not pass the test to work at Laddertop, is recruited by rebels determined to learn more about the aliens who created the Ladders and why they disappeared. There is quite a bit of world building required to set the scene, so having books 1 and 2 bound into a single volume helps considerably with the pacing. The action, once things get going, moves quickly, and tension builds to a satisfying pitch. The artwork is a bit stiff, and the character designs are basic, but readers familiar with manga-inspired art will have no trouble identifying characters after a few pages. Grades 7-9. --Eva Volin
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- PublisherTor/Seven Seas
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 076532461X
- ISBN 13 9780765324610
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
- IllustratorIbardolaza Honoel A.
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