- Fiction, Humorous stories, Juvenile fiction, Robots
While spending the summer together, a boy and his uncle acquire a household robot with a mind of its own.
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Classical in form, warm, spare and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Alison Prince
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 127
- Publisher
- Puffin, Marilyn Malin in association with Deutsch, Four Winds Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780027752014
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