01529nam a22002297a 4500 119392 20240129160029.0 240129b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 POR d 9780553487954 Escola Canadense de Niterói - Expansão Itacoatiara English Fox, Helen Author 906 Eager USA : Yearling, 2006 288 p. : 5.19 x 0.7 x 7.63 inches (paperback) It's the end of the 21st century where technocrats rule and robots take care of humans’ every need. Your house watches you, knows your secrets, and talks to you. And your closest friend can be—a machine? Gavin Bell and his teenage sister Fleur come from a middle-class family. Their much-loved, old-fashioned robot, Grumps, is running down and can’t be repaired, so a scientist friend loans them EGR3, an experimental new robot to help Grumps. EGR3, known as Eager, learns from his experiences, as a child would. He feels emotions—wonder, excitement, and loss. When the ultra high-tech, eerily human BDC4 robots begin to behave suspiciously, Eager and the Bells are drawn into a great adventure that is sometimes dark and often humorous. As Eager’s extraordinary abilities are tested to the limit, he will try to find the answer to this question: What does it mean to be alive? Juvenile Literature 271 Science Fiction 838 Robots 907 Feelings and emotions 636 udc BK 0 0 0 udc 0 0 FIC 12.10 12.10 PM - Juvenile Literature 2024-01-29 1 FOX A28245 2024-08-14 2024-08-07 12:20:11 2024-08-07 1 2024-01-29 BK 119392 119392