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81) Bitty Bot
Author
Series
Bitty Bot volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[\2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"All of the bots in Botsburg are powering down for the night...but Bitty Bot isn't tired! Bitty decides to build a rocket and go on a space adventure instead of going to sleep"--
83) The mother code
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this mind-bending debut novel, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. 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,...
87) Life l1k3
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Eve learns she can destory machines with her mind, she becomes a target for a group of puritanical fanatics, and with her new android best friend Ezekiel, faces cyborg assassins.
88) Far-out friends!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When a robot crashes to Earth, it's up to Nickelodeon's Rusty Rivets and his trusty Bits to befriend the little lost bot and get him back into outer space!"--Provided by publisher.
89) Doug unplugged!
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Doug the robot discovers that cities are much more than downloaded facts when he unplugs from the computer feed and explores one first-hand.
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A beginner-friendly collection of bot projects that can be built with common items found around the house. Begins with introductory chapters on motors, electronics, and soldering techniques before moving on to the projects, which include step-by-step instructions, photographs, and tips"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a 'flesh-and-bone robot' called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out...
92) Robobaby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Excited by the arrival of a new baby, a family of robots is nearly undone by technical difficulties until big sister steps in and repairs the situation.
93) The silver eyes
Author
Series
Five nights at Freddy's volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Charlie and her childhood friends get together on the anniversary of the event at the abandoned pizza place to find that the four animatronic entertainment mascots have changed. They now have a dark secret...and a murderous agenda.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and film critic C. Robert Cargill comes a harrowing apocalyptic adventure that explores the relationship between humans and robots, and the fight for purpose and agency in a crumbling world"--
Pounce is a "nannybot" fashioned in the shape of a plush tiger and in charge of eight-year-old Ezra Reinhart. When Pounce finds the box he arrived in years earlier, the pieces fall into place for a robot revolution...
95) Rogue Protocol
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good."
98) What is a droid?
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the droids present in the Star Wars universe, describing the characteristics and functions of such characters as C-3PO, battle droids, GH-7, and mouse droids.
Author
Series
Stupendous Switcheroo volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What would happen if you woke up every single day with a different, surprise SUPERPOWER?! Find out in this zany, hilarious illustrated novel from Mary Winn Heider and Chad Sell. The morning of his mom's business trip, Switcheroo wakes up to discover he has telekinesis. Which is super convenient when he has to give his babysitter-robot the slip to fight crime all day. But it's less convenient when he's recruited to fight crime again the next day, only...
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