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Science Fiction: Robots
My Brother, the Robot - by Bonny Becker
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780525467922
ISBN-10: 0525467920
When his father buys a SIMON Robot, advertised as "the perfect son," Chip decides that he can't compete with his new brother, but in the end, the whole family learns that perfection may not be so great after all.
Call Number:  J BECKER
Eager - by Helen Fox
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780385746724
ISBN-10: 0385746725
Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family's new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will.
Call Number:  J/YA FOX
Invitation to the Game - by Monica Hughes
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1991
ISBN-13: 9780671742362
ISBN-10: 0671742361
Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.
Call Number:  YA HUGHES
The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights - by Ted Hughes
Publisher: Harper &Row
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780375901676
ISBN-10: 0375901671
The fearsome iron giant becomes a hero when he challenges a huge space monster.
Call Number:  J HUGHES
 

 

 

Ricky Ricotta's Giant Robot: An Adventure Novel - by Dav Pilkey
Publisher: Scholastic
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780590307208
ISBN-10: 0590307207
This is the story of Ricky Ricotta, a lonely little mouse who befriends a giant robot, takes on the school bullies, and saves the city from an evil rat scientist, Dr. Stinky McNasty!  Also published under the title Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot: The First Adventure Novel .  Series:  Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot
Call Number:  J PILKEY
The Trouble on Janus - by Alfred Slote
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/01/1985
ISBN-13: 9780397321599
ISBN-10: 0397321597
Jack and his robot buddy, Danny One, set off for the planet Janus to rescue the young King Paul from his conniving uncle.
Call Number:  J SLOTE
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