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The Junkyard Bot

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Worker robots keep the high-tech town of Terabyte Heights humming, but ten-year-old George Gearing is the only one who has a robot for a best friend. When his scrappy but beloved pal Jackbot is hit by a car, the whiz kid re-engineers him with fancy parts from state-of-the-art TinkerTech Laboratories. Jackbot's astounding new skills far exceed anything George—or even TinkerTech's head of robotics—could ever have imagined. Will the villainous Dr. Micron destroy the whole town to see his tech-driven dream realized? Not if George can help it . . .

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 22, 2014
      In this kickoff to the Robots Rule!
      series, Richards introduces George Gearing, an 11-year-old with a genius-level knack for tinkering with and improving the omnipresent robots of Terabyte Heights. Though George lives with his uncle, who owns a junkyard, and has an out-of-date robot named Jackbot as a best friend, he dreams of earning an apprenticeship with TinkerTech, which all but controls the city. When Jackbot is hit by a car containing Anne, daughter of TinkerTech head Professor Droid, she lets George repair Jackbot with TinkerTech materials, resulting in an unprecedented breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Now a sinister force wants Jackbot as part of a plan to take over the town, and it’s up to George and Anne to save the day. Clever, whimsical, and fast-paced, this adventure never loses its sense of fun as it pits the heroes against unusual mechanical menaces and technological threats. Fujita, a visual development artist at DreamWorks Animation, fleshes out the setting and action with crisp, clean cartoons that invoke a stylized realism and an appropriately cinematic feel. A Working Partners property. Ages 9–12.

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  • OverDrive Read
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  • English

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  • ATOS Level:4.6
  • Lexile® Measure:620
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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