The Junkyard Bot

Worker robots keep the high-tech town of Terabyte Heights humming, but ten-year-old George Gearing is the only one who has a robot for a best friend. When his scrappy but beloved pal Jackbot is hit by a car, the whiz kid re-engineers him with fancy parts from state-of-the-art TinkerTech Laboratories. Jackbot’s astounding new skills far exceed anything George—or even TinkerTech’s head of robotics—could ever have imagined. Will the villainous Dr. Micron destroy the whole town to see his tech-driven dream realized? Not if George can help it . . . This is the start of an adventure filled with high-tech hijinks, heroic inventions, and one evil scientist who wants it all. Middle Grade Science Fiction: Welcome to Terabyte Heights, a town where ten-year-old George Gearing is about to turn the world of robotics upside down. STEM Adventure for Kids: When Jackbot is rebuilt with state-of-the-art parts, George gets a crash course in advanced robotics—and in saving the world! Funny and Heartwarming: At its heart, this is a story about a boy and his best friend. Even if that best friend is made of scrap metal and has a new vocabulary extension unit! An Epic Villain: The villainous Dr. Micron will stop at nothing to get his hands on Jackbot’s new tech, even if it means destroying the whole town to do it.