num_pages: 288
description: 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 bea 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 cant 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 emotionswonder 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 Eagers extraordinary abilities are tested to the limit he will try to find the answer to this What does it mean to be alive?
language: English
title: Eager
publisher: Yearling