Ender's Shadow

This is the sequel to Ender's Game.  I haven't read it yet, at least not in the sense that I've picked up an actual copy of the book, but I did read the prologue, which was shown as a sneak peek in the back of my copy of Ender's Game.  In the first book, Ender is shown training an intelligent, younger boy named Bean, who seems to be almost exactly like Ender was in the beginning- bright, rebellious, and with ideas other people haven't thought of.  The prologue of Ender's Shadow seems to center around Bean's early childhood, so I think that instead of focusing on Ender, the nest novel will focus on Bean.  It will be interesting to see his perspective on Battle School, the place where bright kids train for war.
I thought it was really cool to see in the prologue how different Ender's and Bean's situations were before Battle School.  While Ender lived in a home with his family, and seemed to be a bit wealthier, Bean had no home.  He lived by himself in the streets, finding food whenever he could, and spent most of his life close to death.  Until he was four, he didn't even have a name, and it was given to him by a nine year old girl that held some control in the streets.  Yet, both Ender and Bean saw the world so similarly, in ways other people did not.  Ender never seemed to pay attention in class, yet knew evekrkything, and Bean was poorly off even for a street urchin, but is portrayed to use the same basic logic even at age four in the same way Ender is by the quote, "But finally he realized:...He had understood it from the start.  The reason all these kids handled everything so stupidly was because they were stupid.  They were stupid and he was smart.  So why was he starving to death while these kids were still alive?  That was when he decided to act."