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Fox,
Helen.
EAGER
New York : Wendy Lamb, 2004.
IL 5-8, RL 6.7
ISBN 0385909039
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at the end of the 21st century is ruled by the Technocrats and robots take
care of every human need. But at the Bell household, they are having
a problem with their butler robot Grumps. He's getting old and his
timer is broken. It can't be fixed so Grumps makes lots of mistakes
like serving dinner at breakfast time. The Bells love Grumps even
though he is just a robot and don't want to throw him out in favor of a
new model. But then they find EGR3. He's been programmed by
a friend of Mr. Bell's to be just about human. EGR3 won't replace
Grumps. The Bells plan on keeping both the robots. Will this
work out? Is there a problem with EGR3's programming? Why doesn't
he act like the other robots? |
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SUBJECTS:
Robots -- Fiction.
Science fiction. |
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