By Peyton Moss
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| Peyton Moss is a Boost! VISTA who serves at Strong School. |
I read Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game for the first
time when I was in third grade and have read it many, many times again
over the years. While I think of Ender’s Game as primarily a science-fiction
novel, it’s also futuristic-dystopian, something that I think fascinated me as
a kid who was living in a comparatively normal, safe society. I think that’s
the reason why it captured my attention—it was hard to forget the fascination
with this alternate world and the kind of “what-if” feelings and thoughts about
living in them.
I continued to love Ender’s Game throughout adolescence and
into adulthood for the deeper insights to life they offered me. Each time I’ve
reread It, I’ve come away with something new or different than the many times
before. A book that can be meaningful across a span of years, to me, defines
excellence in children’s books. 