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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Roz is not where she’s supposed to be. You see, the robot wasn’t designed to live in the wilderness. But when she washes up on an island, she must learn from the animal inhabitants and adapt to her new, natural surroundings, and before long, the island begins to feel like home"--
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Series:
Lexile measure:
740L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is – but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island’s unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals,...
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Series:
Wild robot volume 2
Lexile measure:
720L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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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.
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot, Rozzum unit 7134, 'Roz' for short, that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
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Series:
Wild robot volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.3 stars
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"Roz must take an under-the-ocean journey to save her island from a mysterious poison tide"--
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Publisher:
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In 2021, Ruby Free, 21, got her dream job working on an RSPB reserve. But this position wasn't for the faint hearted - it meant moving to live on Rathlin Island, off the County Antrim coast. One of the wildest and most biodiverse corners of the UK and Ireland, to Ruby, who had grown up in the south-west of England, it felt both thrilling and very far from home. Ruby thought she knew what wildness was but arriving on the island alongside a quarter...
9. Fuzzy
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Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
Description:
When Max (Maxine Zealster) befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, she helps him navigate Vanguard Middle School and together they reveal the truth behind the Robot Integration Program.
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"From three-time Bram Stoker-Award-winning novelist Sarah Langan comes a propulsive literary suburban noir set in near-future America during the hottest summer on record. Maple Street has a neighborly cul-de-sac, where a terrible secret tears a rift between two misfit moms who were once best friends. When innocent Shelly Schroeder falls down a sinkhole, it's one mom's word against the other's, in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood....
12. The wilds
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English
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"At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her environment with the assistance of strap-on robot legs. At a deluxe medical spa on a nameless Caribbean island, a middle-aged woman hopes to revitalize her fading youth with grotesque rejuvenating therapies that combine cutting-edge medical technologies with holistic approaches and...
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Publisher:
Que
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Description:
Start programming robots NOW! Learn hands-on, through easy examples, visuals, and code This is a unique introduction to programming robots to execute tasks autonomously. Drawing on years of experience in artificial intelligence and robot programming, Cameron and Tracey Hughes introduce the reader to basic concepts of programming robots to execute tasks without the use of remote controls. Robot Programming: A Guide to Controlling Autonomous Robots...
Publisher:
Tor
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
"Bloat, the boy-governor of the Rox, wanted to make Ellis island a safe haven for Jokers, and made a choice to recruit the Jumpers, superpowered teen outcasts who could steal a man's body in the blink of an eye. But under the leadership of Dr. Tachyon's psychotic grandson, the Jumpers grow more vicious and uncontrollable every day, becoming the greatest threat the Wild Cards have ever faced. Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R....
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Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
In the mid-21st century, dogs are all but extinct. An experiment that went awry caused every canine on Earth to become hyperintelligent. When as a species they stopped wagging their tails, hysteria ensued, followed by a program of mass euthanasia. Now the only surviving dogs are relegated to a sanctuary off the coast of Florida: Dog Island. There, they are studied in a wild, feral, and protected state. And there, too, their robot replacements are...
16. Cloud Town
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Publisher:
Abrams
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
An exciting middle-grade graphic novel about best friends, giant robots, and monsters from another universe! In Daniel McCloskey's debut graphic novel, best friends Pen and Olive live in Cloud Town, an impoverished community on Floating Island, a mysterious landmass that drifts above the earth and happens to sit dangerously close to the Rip-a tear in the fabric of the universe. No big deal or anything. While Pen is brash and brave, Olive is quiet,...
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Publisher:
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Soon to be a show on Hulu! Rights to develop Wild Cards for TV have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team that brought you The Magicians and Mr. Robot, with the co-editor of Wild Cards, Melinda Snodgrass as executive producer. George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards classic adventure, in trade paperback for the first time: a dangerous superpowered gang rises to power and threatens the citizens of New York City Bloat, the boy-governor of...
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
A fast-paced fantasy adventure that turns children onto the fun of Shakespeare. Twelve-year-old Lindsey is in for the adventure of her life when she jets off to visit a rich old aunt on the tropical Isle of Elsinore. Populated by exotic animals, quirky robots, and spry, poetry-loving oldsters, Elsinore seems like a topsy-turvy paradise until the mysterious Jedgar starts threatening the island. As Lindsey and her pals band together to unlock the mystery,...
Author:
Publisher:
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Five books in one! With nonstop action, huge plot twists, and tons of humor, this series will quickly have your 7- to 12-year-old video game fan begging for just one more chapter. Getting sucked into a video game is not as much fun as you'd think. Sure, there are jetpacks, hover tanks, and infinite lives, but what happens when the game starts to turn on you? In this best-selling series, 12-year-old Jesse Rigsby finds out just how dangerous video games-and...