The story of Battle School is not just a story of hard struggle and victory for Ender Wiggin. There were no mediocre students in this school; the best of the best were selected there. And even the most outstanding children of the Earth had little chance of getting into the military elite of humanity. Little Bob, a street tramp from Rotterdam, had no chance at all. But fate made an exception for him and gave him the opportunity to accomplish in the name of humanity a feat hardly less great than what his friend accomplished, although not so noticeable in the shadow of Ender.