i hate reading books, but in summer school recently i read a book for my ISU project...and IMO it is the best book EVER! its called 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card...search for it on spark notes...its about a boy in the future who grows up to be a commander of an army at the age of 15 or so...i don't reme,ber exactly...but anyway, its a really good book.
as for what you can compare it to...erm...i don't really know...Scott Card has a lot of sci-fi books...Ender's Game is the first book in the series, the second is Speaker for the Dead, which i am currently reading...which is also good so far, i'm only 2 or 3 chapters into the book, but it's good so far...so i'm assuming that his other bookks, outside of the series are good too.
anyway, good luck
oh and if you don't end up reading Ender's Game for english, i really recommend you read it for fun. (did i just say that?
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