Zoe's Tale: An Old Man's War Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765356192)

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?

I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.

Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did -- how I did what I had to do -- not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try to make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.

It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.

Old Man's War Series
#1 Old Man's War
#2 The Ghost Brigades
#3 The Last Colony
#4 Zoe's Tale
#5 The Human Division
#6 The End of All Things
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Author: John Scalzi
ISBN-10: 0765356198
ISBN-13: 9780765356192
Publisher: Tor Books
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2009
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 6.79h x 4.22w x 1.08d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 149951 / Zoe's Tale

Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Recommended