You've a right to privacy like anyone else.'' We agreed it would be dreadful to spy on our own children. 37 - ''You know, your mum and I discussed this when we built the house. the importance of education and lifelong learning 17-8 - ''Animals are alive, Mum.Robots are just machines that run on an energy supply'.'Animals need an energy supply too. 17 - ''We humans don't last forever.and neither do machines.'' the question as to what makes someone or something human such as feelings and emotions, or the ability to think There is much here for readers to chew on, maybe a bit too much for middle schoolers, to the point that 'Eager' feels 'stuffed.' Some of those thematic elements include: And they are correct! The action generally moves along at a good pace however, there is so much jammed into the story that, at times, the plot gets confusing (the scene in the hotel room with Sea Captain Bradoc, an the other BDC4s, for example). Bell arranges with Professor Ogden for his family to take in a prototype robot, EGR3, an experimental model robot whom they name 'Eager.' When the BDC4s start doing strange things and disappearing for long stretches at a time Fleur, Gavin, and Eager begin to suspect something big is amiss with the BDC4's.

Only government officials and technocrats can afford the luxury of the BDC4, such as Fleur's best friend Marcie whose family has a brand new robot named 'Boadicea.' As a compromise, Mr. They rely on 'Grumps,' their old robot, whose timer is not working properly. and Mr.s Bell), members of the 'professional' class, can't afford this new model. However, the Bell Family (Charlotte, Fleur, Gavin, and Mr. 28) has just released the new BDC4 robot. LifeCorp (the company that '.provided transport, food, water, learning centers, factories, houses, and almost everything else.' - p. I read this piece as a selection for the Chapter and Verse cook club that I belong to. Urn:oclc:229315062 Scandate 20110524055238 Scanner in 2004, Helen Fox's 'Eager' is an entry into the Science Fiction genre. OL15842510W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.27 Pages 314 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0307522369 Urn:lcp:eagersnephew00foxh:epub:bed6debf-2d24-4343-866b-ad25f1846d7e Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier eagersnephew00foxh Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5s767x8v Isbn 0385746733ĩ780385909044 Lccn 2006004297 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition

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Eager's Nephew by Helen Fox