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Overview

Seven-year-old Ben loves pretending to be a robot, but his best friend Jessy is tired of being ordered to oil his knee joints and check his batteries. She says the robot game is boring and runs off to play with someone else. So Ben decides to build a real robot instead. He's built all kinds of things before: wind generators, solar-powered marble launchers, pinball machines. But none of his creations have ever really worked. Until now.

When his robot begins talking, Ben is thrilled. However, nothing goes quite the way he thinks it will. Ben's robot is rather difficult to get along with. He complains a lot. He's bossy. He never wants to do anything Ben suggests. Having a real robot isn't nearly as much fun as Ben thought it would be. And to make things worse, no one—not even Jessy—will believe him.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459805989
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Publication date: 09/01/2013
Series: Orca Echoes Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 64
Lexile: 560L (what's this?)
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Robin Stevenson is the author of more than twenty-five books for kids and teens, including Pride Puppy!, Pride Colors and Kid Activists: True Tales of Childhood from Champions of Change. The first edition of her nonfiction book Pride: Celebrating Diversity&Community (2016) won a Stonewall Honor and was shortlisted for numerous other awards. Robin lives in Victoria, British Columbia.


David Parkins has illustrated numerous children's books. He also does editorial illustrations, political cartoons, and strip cartoons. David lives in Selby, North Yorkshire.

Read an Excerpt

Ben ran over to the bike rack. "Jessy, guess what?"
   Jessy waved goodbye to her dad and turned to lock up her bike. "What?" She took off her helmet and smiled at him.
   "You know my robot I've been building?"
   "Of course." Jessy looked interested.
   "Well..." Ben looked around to make sure no one was listening. He spoke in a whisper. "I know this sounds crazy, but it really works."


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