The character development focuses on Roz and her adopted son, Brightbill. The environmental and technological dangers introduced halfway through are impactful they threaten the tightly knit community so carefully cultivated by Roz and the animals. Set in the not-so-distant future, this thoughtful story unfolds slowly, matching Roz's pace as she observes and integrates into island life. Roz and the animals fall into a happy routine, but that bliss is broken by environmental and technological threats to the island. But Roz rescues a goose egg and reaches out to the animal community for help. Scared of the unknown, the animals initially think she's a monster and run in terror. She camouflages herself as clumps of seaweed, meadow flowers, and fallen logs to quietly observe and learn from the flora and fauna. Roz is baffled by the wildness of the environment, but her robot brain is programmed to learn and master tasks. Gr 3-5-The crate containing ROZZUM unit 7134 wasn't meant to be shipwrecked on an island. Agent: Paul Rodeen, Rodeen Literary Management. Brown wisely eschews a happy ending in favor of an open-ended one that supports the tone of a story that’s simultaneously unsentimental and saturated with feeling. The allegory of otherness is clear but never heavy-handed, and Roz has just enough human attributes to make her sympathetic while retaining her robot characteristics. Tiger Goes Wild) convincingly builds a growing sense of cooperation among the animals and Roz as she blossoms in the wild. At first, Roz struggles to survive in an environment where she is treated as a frightening intruder, but after she adopts an abandoned gosling, she slowly becomes part of the island community, learning animal language and taking on motherhood and a leadership role. A hurricane deposits Roz (short for ROZZUM unit 7134) on the island, where she is accidentally activated by a group of sea otters, who are terrified by the shiny monster awakening before their eyes. Starred review from JanuBrown’s middle-grade debut, an uplifting story about an unexpected visitor whose arrival disrupts the animal inhabitants of a rocky island, has a contemporary twist: the main character is a robot. Winner of AdioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine Even though the book has no humans, the listener will, nevertheless, ponder the nature of humans, the implications of artificial intelligence, and the meaning of being wild. Atwater also provides fitting and distinctive character voices for each of the island's delightfully named inhabitants, which include ChitChat the squirrel, TrunkTap the woodpecker, and BrightBill-Roz's unlikely son. Narrator Kate Atwater maintains Roz's robotic voice throughout the book, but as Roz slowly earns membership in the island's animal community and "learns" their values, her machinelike voice gains warmth and friendliness. My name is Roz," she announces to each creature she meets. Amid sounds of crashing waves, seagulls, and otherworldly music, we meet Roz, one robot of many who floats ashore in working condition after her cargo ship sinks.
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