Eager by Helen Fox

Eager by Helen Fox

It's the end of the 21st century where technocrats rule and robots take care of humans' every need. Your house watches you, knows your secrets, and talks to you. And your closest friend can be--a machine?

Gavin Bell and his teenage sister Fleur come from a middle-class family. Their much-loved, old-fashioned robot, Grumps, is running down and can't be repaired, so a scientist friend loans them EGR3, an experimental new robot to help Grumps. EGR3, known as Eager, learns from his experiences, as a child would. He feels emotions--wonder, excitement, and loss. When the ultra high-tech, eerily human BDC4 robots begin to behave suspiciously, Eager and the Bells are drawn into a great adventure that is sometimes dark and often humorous. As Eager's extraordinary abilities are tested to the limit, he will try to find the answer to this question: What does it mean to be alive?

Helen Fox teaches about race and racism, human rights, peace activism, and international development at the University of Michigan's Residential College. She is the author of Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in Academic Writing (1994), When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms (2001, 2009), and the editor, with C. Schroeder and P. Bizzell, of ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy (2002), as well as many articles, speeches, book chapters, and rambling notes on future projects.

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ISBN 13	9780553487954
ISBN 10	0553487957
Title	Eager
Author	Helen Fox
Series	Eager Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2006-01-24
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of Texas Lone Star Reading List 2005
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.