Reawakening: Volume 2
By (Author) Orson Scott Card
Simon & Schuster
Margaret K McElderry Books
15th January 2026
United States
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Hardback
464
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 26mm
From the New York Times bestselling author of Enders Game comes Reawakening, the thrilling sequel to Wakers, following Laz as he uses his abilities to travel to parallel worlds and fight to save them.
Laz has already saved humanity before.
As a side-stepper, Laz was born with the power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. He used this power to find a new home for humanity after learning his own Earth was destined to be destroyed. And he hoped his help would never be needed again.
But now hes being called on once more to use his powers to change the course of history. This time, its not just the fate of the world at stakebut many worlds.
And only Laz has the ability to stop the coming interdimensional war from consuming them all.
Orson Scott Card is the author of numerous bestselling novels and the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards two years in a row; first forEnders Gameand then for the sequel,Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife in North Carolina.