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• A Rover's Story

  Warga, Jasmine,

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  Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Wolf Called Wander

  Parry, Rosanne,

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  A young wolf cub, separated from his pack, journeys 1000 miles across the Pacific Northwest, dealing with forest fires, hunters, highways, and hunger before finding a new home. Based on the true story of a wolf called OR-7.

• The Last Human

  Bacon, Lee,

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  After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maya and the Robot

  Ewing, Eve L.,

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  In desperate need of a friend--and a science project--Maya finds a robot named Ralph in Mr. Mac’s convenience store, and once she gets him up and running, a new world of connection opens up.

• The Eyes & the Impossible

  Eggers, Dave,

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  Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pax

  Pennypacker, Sara, 1951-

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  From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Odder

  Applegate, Katherine,

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  Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Build a Robot!

  Venable, Colleen A. F.,

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  Uses a story in graphic-novel format about a toaster preparing to take over the world to provide step-by-step instructions for how to build a robot that can move on its own, sound an alarm, and use a sensor to report to the outside world.

• Always, Clementine

  Sorosiak, Carlie,

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  Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The One and Only Ivan

  Applegate, Katherine

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  When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

• Three Tales of My Father's Dragon

  Gannett, Ruth Stiles

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  When Elmer Elevator tells a stray cat about his dream of being able to fly, he learns of a captive dragon on Wild Island. The dragon has been forced by the jungle residents to serve as their shuttle across a wide river — and anyone who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Robot

  Hatke, Ben

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  When a girl finds a lost robot in the woods, they become fast friends, but they are in for an adventure when a much larger, menacing robot comes to retrieve it.

• The Swiss Family Robinson

  Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818

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  When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.