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101) The Invisible Fran
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Franny Stein, self-styled mad scientist, creates a robot to show her school friends the joys of science, she ends up learning something from them instead. There's nothing better in the world than being a mad scientist-at least according to Franny. And she's absolutely convinced that, if given the opportunity to be one, every kid in her class would feel the same way. So she's making it her mission to help her classmates discover their own inner...
102) Robot dreams
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Description
The enduring friendship between a dog and a robot is portrayed in this wordless graphic novel
Author
Series
Lunch Lady volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The school lunch lady is a secret crime fighter who uncovers an evil plot to replace all the popular teachers with robots
104) The Mother Code
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"It is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots - to be incubated, birthed, and raised by these machines, which have been programmed with the latest advances in artificial intelligence: the Mother Code. Kai is born...
105) Robot rampage!
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Oh, no! All the robots are being controlled by the evil Dr. Bug. Can the robot rampage be stopped?"--P. [4] of cover
106) Rey's story
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rey never thought she would leave the desert planet of Jakku, but her life is turned upside down when she meets BB-8, a small droid with a big secret. Like it or not, Rey is about to be caught up in something much larger than herself: a galactic war between the evil First Order and the fledgling Resistance. But something is awakening inside of Rey, something that might turn the tides of fortune in the galaxy ...
107) Love at first beep
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
WALL-E, a lonely robot, falls in love with EVE, who has come to Earth looking for plant life to take back to her planet, and after she sees how WALL-E cares for her, she falls in love with him too
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. Well, that's not exactly true. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl's path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later,...
109) Network Effect
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the edge an isolated star system, Kel Gardavros, once a member of an Order whose military arm was disbanded and scattered across the galaxy, finds her past intruding in the form of a long-dormant Pale war machine that is suddenly reactivated, primed to kill every sentient creature on the planet"--
A refugee with a secret, a dangerous foe, and a road trip that could either save a planet or start a war. Where peace is lost, may we find it. Five...
112) Out there: stories
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Full of indelible characters and darkly comic twists, the stories in Kate Folk's debut collection are perfectly pitched for the madness of our modern moment. A ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the scene of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide whom she wants to spend eternity with. A woman navigates finding a partner while beautiful humanoid robots called "blots"...
113) Frankenstein's Dog
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kat is reluctant to visit her Uncle Vic Frankenstein because of all the rumors about him. People in the small town where he lives say he's a mad scientist like his great-grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, who created a monster that came alive and terrorized the town. But Kat is relieved to find that even though he lives in a dark, old castle-like mansion, Uncle Vic is a quiet, gentle man, a scientist interested in building robots with artificial intelligence....
Author
Publisher
Philomel books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lucy Peevey, twelve, and her best friend, Cam, are perfecting the robot that could win a competition, a scholarship, and a way out of Sunnyside Trailer Park when Lucy's mother goes off her medication and her manic-depressive disorder goes out of control
115) TIGHTROPE
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world"--
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...
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