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Series
Robot series volume 3
Language
English
Description
A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.
Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist...
Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist...
Author
Series
Robot series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Detective Elijah Baley investigates a murder while learning to work with a robot partner made in the image of the victim.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets...
6) I, robot
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Cora and her husband hunt things; things that shouldn't exist. When the marshal of Leadville, Colorado, comes across a pair of mysterious deaths, he turns to Cora to find the creature responsible, but if Cora is to overcome the unnatural tide threatening to consume the small town, she must first confront her own tragic past as well as her present.
8) To Protect
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of the popular Renshai series, Mickey Zucker Reichert pens I, Robot: To Protect-the first in a trilogy inspired by the Isaac Asimov classic I, Robot. It's the year 2035, and robot psychologist Dr. Susan Calvin is beginning her residency at a teaching hospital where patients are being injected with diagnostic nanobots. Before long, Susan realizes that the injections portend dire consequences- and that the nanobots are being...
10) Arctic adventure
Author
Series
Robot racers volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
For the third leg of the robot races the contestants must choose between three possible Arctic routes, all of which are dangerous--especially when some of the racers are not playing by the rules.
11) Canyon chaos
Author
Series
Robot racers volume 1
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Desert disaster
Author
Series
Robot racers volume 4
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The fourth leg of the robot races requires Jimmy and the other contestants to navigate a route through the Sahara Desert--without a navigation system.
13) How robots work
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Explains how and where robots work today, as well as discusses new and developing advances in robotics"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Robot racers volume 2
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Roberts and his robot, Maverick, are ready for the next stage of the robot races which will go through the Amazon rain forest, but his enemy Horace Pelly is equally determined to win--and he does not care how he does it.
16) To Obey
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Susan Calvin is about to enter her second year as a psych resident at the Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital when a violent crime strikes very close to home. When she was young, Susan lost her mother in a terrible car wreck that also badly injured her father. She now believes the accident was orchestrated by government officials who wanted her parents dead. Susan has always known there was a faction of the U.S. government that wanted to hijack her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Why did the chicken cross the road? TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! The city of Aberdeen is being terrorised by giant robot chickens who want to peck out every last sign of human resistance. The streets are empty, the adults have vanished – and those left behind are fighting for survival. Jesse and his friends are desperate to save their families and stop the feathered fiends. They hatch a master plan ... but can a gang of kids REALLY defeat an
...19) House of robots
Author
Series
House of robots volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"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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