Pilkey, Dav
Summary: Ricky Ricotta, a small mouse, is being bullied at school, but when he rescues a powerful robot from its evil creator, he acquires a friend and protector--and saves the city from Dr. Stinky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PILApplegate, Katherine
Summary: Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have outgrown them. Chance, a real dog, has been in Dogtown since her owners unwittingly left her with irresponsible dog-sitters who skipped town. Metal Head is a robot dog who dreams of being back in a real home. And Mouse is a mouse who has the run of Dogtown, pilfering kibble, and performing clever...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: When a group of nerdy best friends each begin receiving robots that start to act like real creatures, it is up to them to save the day, and the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LERWinick, Judd
Summary: "When a mysterious boy falls from the sky, friends D.J. and Gina must discover the secrets of his identity and help him save the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC WINBolts, Russ
Summary: When cameras sent from Earth finally arrive at the end of the universe, they discover big-hearted best friends Joe Bot and Rob Ot, as well as their nemesis, Tinny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2019
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC BOLMcCulloch, Amy
Summary: After fourteen-year-old Lacey Chu repairs a highly advanced smartphone/robotic pet companion, or baku, called Jinx, the baku gets her into her dream school, Profectus, where she is exposed to dangerous secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCCWells, Dan
Summary: "In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2012
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: "War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction. When an AI dies, its city dies with it. When a city falls, it leaves a corpse behind. When that corpse runs off, only devotion can bring it back. When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANFriend, Podoal
Summary: "La Ion just wants to play soccer, but he accidentally joins a robot soccer club. Along with the story of La Ion's mix-up, this graphic novel explores the history of robots and key ideas in robotics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FRIHeider, Mary Winn
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HEIChambers, Becky
Summary: "In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHALewis, Axel
Summary: This year the robot races are just for children, and Jimmy Roberts is entering the robot taxi his genius grandfather has built--but he will have to compete with a racer designed by NASA engineers for the wealthy and unscrupulous Horace Pelly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWPatterson, James
Summary: "Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATScieszka, Jon.
Summary: In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SCICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Scieszka 2014Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCICarriger, Gail.
Summary: In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC CARChristopher, Adam
Summary: It was just another Tuesday morning when she walked into the office--young, as I suspected they all might be, another dark brunette with some assistance and enough eye black to match up to Cleopatra. And who am I? I'm Ray, the world's last robot, famed and feared in equal measure, which suits me just fine--after all, the last place you'd expect to find a Hollywood's best hit man is in the plain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRMaisy, Axel
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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Summary: "The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Teen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHAHerbert, Brian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SF HerbertYanish, Brian
Summary: An unlikely friendship forms between a great white shark and a robot when they bond over a favorite book series, then stand--and dance--together against playground bullies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Childrens Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 YANDean, Justin
Summary: After moving to a new town, fifth-grader Marty worries about fitting in and must go up against a scientist out for revenge when he discovers a robotic dog in his new house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DEAMyklusch, Matt.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite the virus he carries that makes him a threat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MYKSniegoski, Tom
Summary: When Kirby, a French bulldog with a serious Napoleon Complex, moves to a new home in the quaint New England town of Strasburg, Massachusetts, and stumbles upon a forgotten secret laboratory, he realizes that his dreams of Planetary Conquest are finally within paw's reach. But, suddenly, Kirby realizes he isn't alone. Seemingly out of nowhere, a strange group of people appear, exhibiting what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Comics 2018