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81) The Boneshaker
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines makes her the only one who canset things right.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
Author
Series
WondLa trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her. Features "augmented reality" pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.
Author
Series
Tim Possible volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Tim and Tito are best friends whose world gets upended when a time-traveling T-Rex named Oskar suddenly appears in Tim's backyard. That's right, a time-traveling T-Rex, who knows too much for his or Tim and Tito's good. Sure, Oskar's prehistoric spaceship is awesome. But when Tim mistakenly gulps down something called Impossible Juice, the boys find themselves not only battling a loony, robotic lunch lady but also Oskar's evil AI assistant. Is humanity...
Author
Series
Hilo volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hilo and DJ, with the help of Polly, the magical warrior cat, travel through a mysterious portal and battle bad guys, face disgusting food, an angry mom, and powerful magic to save their friend Gina.
87) Wormhole
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Inspectors Gordon Kemp and Danni Bellini are pulled off their routine cold case investigations and ordered to investigate a murder from 2109: eighty years ago ..."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Hilo volume 4
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hilo and his friends learn more about Hilo's past while they battle robots that were buried underground on Earth a thousand years ago.
Author
Series
Borrowed man volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "A Borrowed Man" is set in a future world of artificial intelligence where a clone is loaned out to a little girl before discovering that his original self, a mystery writer, is still alive.
Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots. And there are clones. E.A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer....
Author
Series
Far Flung Falls volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1983, kids of Far Flung Falls are disappearing one by one, including Molly's brother, so aided by a crew of unusually determined pets, Molly sets off to find her brother and discover who the mastermind is behind the abductions.
91) Rebel Seoul
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of LEE & LOW BOOKS Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 2199 in the Neo State of Korea, eighteen-year-old Jaewon is partnered with supersoldier Tera, but their evolving love is threatened when Jaewon must choose among conflicting loyalties--to the totalitarian government that promises to end all war, the nationalist rebels his father followed, or the crime syndicate staging a coup.
Author
Series
Awesome Dog 5000 volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"When Awesome Dog's heroics gain media attention, Marty, Skyler, and Ralph find themselves targeted by the narcissistic mayor of Townville"--
93) The second bell
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated mountain community, sometimes a child is born with two hearts. This child is called a striga and is considered a demon who must be abandoned on the edge of the forest. The child's mother must then decide to leave with her infant, or stay and try to forget. Nineteen year-old striga, Salka, and her mother, Miriat, made the choice to leave and live a life of deprivation and squalor in an isolated village. The striga tribe share the human...
94) Deep dive
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Still reeling from the failure of his last project, video game developer Peter Banuk is working hard to ensure his next game doesn't meet the same fate. He desperately needs a win, not only to save his struggling company, but to justify the time he's spent away from his wife and daughters. So when Peter's tech-genius partner offers him the chance to beta-test a new state-of-the-art virtual reality headset, he jumps at it. But something goes wrong...
95) Empire state
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"It's a parallel-universe, Prohibition-era world of mooks and shamuses that is the twisted magic mirror to our bustling Big Apple. It's a city where sinister characters lurk around every corner while the great superheroes who once kept the streets safe have fallen into deadly rivalries and feuds. Not that its colourful residents know anything about the real New York ... until detective Rad Bradley makes a discovery that will change the lives of all...
Author
Series
Atlantis novels (Gregory Mone) volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lewis, Hanna, and Kaya, their resourceful Atlantean friend, embark on an all-new journey through Atlantis, from the sunken underwater world of Evenor to the tunnels below Ridge City. Bonus content includes science and robotics concepts in the story, and a scientist's take on the curious biology of mermaids.
Author
Series
In the City of Time volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Willa and nonbinary android Saudade travel back to 1891 Italy to find the editbook and prevent whatever caused the cataclysm, but Faraz is hot on their heels with plans of his own.
Publisher
Right Stuf International
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The original boy-robot with 100,000 horsepower strength and courage! In the year 2000, Dr. Boyton creates a super-robot in his deceased son's image. He calls the robot Astro Boy. Astro Boy can swim oceans, leap over mountains, even fly into space on his own power. However, Astro Boy can't replace his son; Dr. Boyton becomes dissatisfied with the boy robot and disowns him. Astro Boy is befriended by Dr. Packadermus J. Elefun of the Institute of Science,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A new novel about an underground food community by the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"--
A software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions, Lois Clary codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. When the brothers have Visa issues, they have one last delivery...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Charlie is the laid-back captain of the basketball team. Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. Their unlikely friendship nearly bites the dust when Nate declares war on the cheerleaders and they retaliate by making Charlie their figurehead in the ugliest class election campaign the school has ever seen. At stake is funding that will either cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms-- but not both. Bad sportsmanship?...
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