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Copyright 2018 by Peter Brown
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Brown, Peter, 1979 author, illustrator.
Title: The wild robot escapes / words and pictures by Peter Brown.
Description: First edition. | Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. | Sequel to: The wild robot. | Summary: After being captured by the RECOs and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm, where she befriends her owners family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017044074| ISBN 9780316382045 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316475181 (ebook) | ISBN 9780316510288 (library edition ebook)
Subjects: | CYAC: RobotsFiction. | Farm lifeFiction. | Domestic animalsFiction. | Science fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Robots. | JUVENILE FICTION / Science Fiction. | JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General. | JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General. | JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B81668 Wk 2018 | DDC [Fic]dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044074
ISBNs: 978-0-316-38204-5 (hardcover), 978-0-316-47518-1 (ebook)
E3-20180205-JV-PC
A New York Times Bestseller
An IndieBound Bestseller
A Washington Post Best Childrens Book of the Year
An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle-Grade Book of the Year
A Parents Magazine Best Childrens Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year for Kids
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Best Book of the Year
An Amazon Best Childrens Book of the Year Top Pick
A Kirkus Reviews Best Childrens Book of the Year
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Brown has written a lively tale that is sure to engage young readers.
The New York Times
[A] tender, captivating tale.
The Washington Post
Thought-provoking and charming.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Expect readers to go wild for [Browns] robot-themed novel.
Booklist, starred review
Grounded in striking,eye-catching compositions. The open ending is sure to spark discussions about environmental impact and responsibility.
School Library Journal, starred review
Browns middle-grade debut, an uplifting story has a contemporary twist. Brown wisely eschews a happy ending in favor of an open-ended one that supports the tone of a story thats simultaneously unsentimental and saturated with feeling.
Publishers Weekly, starred review
To the wild places of the future
Our story begins in a city, with buildings and streets and bridges and parks. Humans were strolling, automobiles were driving, airships were flying, robots were hard at work.
Weaving through the city streets was a delivery truck. The truck knew where to go, and how to get there, all by itself. It pulled up to a construction site and automatically unloaded some crates. A few more turns and it unloaded more crates down at the docks. The truck
zigged
and
zagged
across the city, delivering crates as it went, and then it merged onto a highway.
Cars and buses and trucks were cruising along the highway together. But as the delivery truck continued, the traffic became lighter, the buildings became smaller, and the landscape became greener.
With nothing but open road ahead, the truck accelerated to its top speed. The landscape outside was now just a green blur, occasionally broken by a flicker of gray as a town flew past. On and on the delivery truck went, racing over long bridges, shooting through mountain tunnels, gliding down straight stretches of highway, until it started to slow. It drifted from the fast lane to the exit lane, and then it rolled down a ramp and into farm country.
Clouds of dust billowed up behind the truck as it drove past fields and fences. In the hazy distance, enormous barns loomed above the plains. The air was thick with the smells of soil and livestock. Robot crews methodically worked the crops and fed the animals and operated the massive farm machines.
A hill gradually climbed into view. The hill was crowned with trees and white buildings. Another farm. But this one was smaller and shabbier than the rest. Out front was a crooked sign that read Hilltop Farm.
Wheels crunched on gravel as the delivery truck rolled onto the driveway and up to the top of the hill. It stopped beside the front porch of the farmhouse and dropped its last crate to the ground. Then the truck drove away.
Reader, can you guess what was tightly packed inside that crate? If you guessed a robot, youre correct. But this was no ordinary robot. It was ROZZUM unit 7134. You might remember her old life on a remote, wild island. Well, Rozs new life was just about to begin.