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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The role of robots in our lives is growing all the time. Learn about their many different shapes, sizes and uses and meet robots who do dangerous and dirty jobs, help perform surgery, look like us, show emotion like us and much more.
3) Friendroid
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told through journal entries, twelve-year-old Danny and his best friend Slick recount how their friendship begins and when they discover Slick's true identity and ultimate fate.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Otto the robot has made many friends since landing on Earth but more than anything else he wants to see his family, so he builds a spaceship to take him home.
Author
Publisher
Boom ! Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once a year, giant robots from outer space come to Earth and bond with young cadets from the elite Sky Corps Academy to defend the world from the terrifying aliens known as the Sharg. It's a great honor to be chosen, but this year...well, the wrong kid was picked.
7) Ungifted
Author
Series
Ungifted volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
Author
Series
Wild robot volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting tests, shadowed by their company-supplied bot - a self-aware SeeUnit that refers to itself as "Murderbot."
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"What can you build with just 35 LEGO bricks? Sean Kenney shows you 75 models he has made using some of the most common pieces available. Follow the instructions, tips, and techniques to create whatever you can imagine"--Page [4] of cover.
11) One trick pony
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In a future where alien beings consume technology as a few humans try to preserve it, Strata, her brother, and a friend are separated from their caravan and, with a wonderful robotic horse, must fight their way back.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three aliens set off to find a new planet for themselves but soon Bork and Gork have forgotten all of their mother's good advice and only Nklxwcyz builds a home safe enough to withstand the Big Bad Robot, in this story reminiscent of "The Three Little Pigs."
13) Stop! Bot!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy out for a walk with his family stops to show a building doorman his new "bot": "I have a bot!" Only he doesn't have it for long, because it floats up out of his hands like an escaped balloon. "Stop! Bot!" Springing to action, the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it -- along with the help of each floor's resident. But while everything looks normal at first, every floor (and resident) is a little more...
14) The wild robot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
15) Tightrope
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but after spending her inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real. In the chaotic aftermath, Amalie watches Matthias Jones disappear...
Author
Series
Secret coders volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
92 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
There's something lurking beneath the surface of Stately Academy - literally. In a secret underground classroom, Hopper, Eni, and Josh discover that the campus was once home to the Bee School, an institute where teachers, students, and robots worked together to unravel the mysteries of coding. Hopper and her friends are eager to follow in this tradition and become top-rate coders. But why are Principal Dean and the rugby team suddenly so interested...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ultrabot has his first playdate, he is worried and shy but he soon learns that he and Becky have a lot in common.
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
19) Transformers
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.
Intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, brief sexual humor, and language.
Author
Series
Mighty Jack volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Teaming up with new friend Zita the spacegirl, Jack and Lilly confront an army of dangerous giants and screeds ready to lay siege to Earth and determined to end all human life"--