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1) Waking gods
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. 9 years ago: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. Today: with the remainder of the giant robot found and assembled, every question answered about the mysterious contraption raises two...
2) Only human
Author
Series
Themis files volume 3
Language
English
Description
"In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together form Themis: a powerful robot of mysterious alien origin. She, along with linguist Vincent, pilot Kara, and the unnamed Interviewer, protected the Earth from geopolitical conflict and alien invasion alike. Now, after...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Wild robot volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. So the wild robot sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide. During her journey, Roz encounters amazing geological formations and incredible creatures, and...
7) This is war
Author
Series
Cats vs. robots volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The longstanding and galaxy-spanning war between cats and robots escalates when each learns of inventions designed to extend their lives, and the potential of the devices is revealed when two kittens come into the lives of twin siblings on Earth." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Themis files volume 1
Language
English
Description
"17 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. Today: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. A swift and spellbinding tale told almost exclusively through transcriptions of interviews conducted by a mysterious and unnamed character,...
11) The junkyard bot
Author
Series
Robots rule! volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When George Gearing's personal robot Jackbot gets hit by a car, George rebuilds him into something amazing, only to have him disappear just as darkness threatens the town, leaving George and his new friend Anne Droid to find out what happened.
12) Ruins
Author
Series
Partials volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the Partials Sequence. There is no avoiding it--the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira Walker has precious little time to prevent that from happening. She has one chance to save both species and the world with them, but it...
13) Humans, bow down
Author
Language
English
Description
The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was...
15) See Otto
Author
Lexile measure
80L
Language
English
Description
Otto the robot lands on Earth, where he confronts an angry rhino and befriends two artistic monkeys.
17) Robots
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
IG 850L
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores how robots function and are made, looking at their computing components and how engineers design them with specific capabilities.
18) Clinks the robot
Author
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zach and his favorite toy, Clinks the robot, play together every day, but at night the mechanical plaything has a life of its own.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio--a past spent hunting humans....
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Frank Einstein is a kid-genius, scientist and inventor. Klink is a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity. And Klank is a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity. Together they create the BrainTurbo to power-boost the human body and help their baseball-pitching pal Janegoodall make the team. But can they figure out how to foil archrival T. Edison and save the world? -- Page [4] cover.