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Runaway Robot

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Runaway Robot is a funny and heartwarming adventure about two best friends helping put themselves back together, from the award-winning Frank Cottrell-Boyce, illustrated by Steven Lenton.

When Alfie goes to Airport Lost Property, he finds more than he bargained for. A lot more. Because there’s a giant robot called Eric hidden away on the shelves. Eric has lost one leg and half his memory. He’s super strong, but super clumsy. He’s convinced that he’s the latest technology, when he’s actually nearly one hundred year’s old and ready for the scrap heap.

Can Alfie find a way to save Eric from destruction – before Eric destroys everything around him?

Our Review Panel says...

I was really looking forward to reading this book and I can honestly say I was not disappointed. Frank Cottrell-Boyce takes us to a world not dissimilar to our own, but in a time where robots have replaced people for simple everyday tasks. This is a tale of humour, humanity and two friends trying to get to the truth. Alfie is struggling to remember, and come to terms with, the accident that caused him to lose his hand. Since the accident Alfie has been attending the Limb Lab, to learn to control his new state-of-the-art hand…

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