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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2010
Gr 5–8—Twelve-year-old Eva Nine is being raised by Muthr, a pale blue robot who is loving and maternal (she speaks in the sweet, unflappable tones of a 1950s sit-com mom), in an underground home on the planet Orbona. When a marauder destroys her home, she leaves Sanctuary in a quest to find other humans like herself. Aboveground she finds a fantastic and frightening world populated by malevolent wandering trees, a giant beast who is pursuing her, nasty sand-snipers, and more. With the aid of Rovender, a lanky blue creature with backward-bending knees, and Otto, a gia...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
After the destruction of her mechanized Sanctuary, robot-reared Eva Nine searches for other humans. Gray-green geometric illustratio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
