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"Cat, this is Finn. He's going to be your tutor."
Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion... and more.
But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however,...
Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion... and more.
But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however,...
3) Tightrope
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wealthy sorcerer's invitation to sing with his automaton leads seventeen-year-old Nimira, whose family's disgrace brought her from a palace to poverty, into political intrigue, enchantments, and a friendship with a fairy prince who needs her help.
Author
Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the best-selling Robopocalypse is told through a series of narratives that finds new and former characters fighting to rebuild a war-stricken world under threat of the surviving Archos machine code.
Author
Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007.
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
Lunch Lady volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The school lunch lady is a secret crime fighter who uncovers an evil plot to replace all the popular teachers with robots.
12) The new padawan
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jedi generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker battle the Separatist Alliance's droid army on the planet of Christophsis as Anakin attempts to get used to his new, unwanted padawan, Ahsoka Tano.
Author
Series
Transformation (Neal Asher) volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After awakening one hundred years after his death at the hands of a haywire AI, Thorvald Spear vows revenge on the machine intelligence and marshalls Isobel Satomi, former criminal and part AI herself, to his cause.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
It has been fifty-six years since the events of the author's The machine crusade and following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place.
16) Ride Otto Ride!
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Otto and his friends go for a ride on an elephant.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring a traumatic resurrection for the ninety-sixth time, Valero is reassigned to a special forces unit and outfitted with a cutting-edge virtual intelligence aid. They could turn the tide in the war against intelligent machines dedicated to the assimilation, or destruction, of humanity. When her VI suddenly achieves sentience, Valero is drawn into the machinations of an enigmatic major who's...
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
19) See Pip point
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When Pip the mouse floats off with Otto the robot's balloon, Otto and Zee the Bee go to the rescue.
20) See Otto
Author
Series
Adventures of Otto volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Otto the robot lands on Earth, where he is chased by a rhinoceros and befriended by some monkeys.
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