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| Eager | 
| Author: Helen Fox
Publisher: Yearling
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 197699
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0553487957
EAN: 9780553487954
ASIN: 0553487957
Publication Date: January 24, 2006
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Product 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 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?
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Awesome book! February 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the cover of the book, you would not be able to guess the greatness of the book. You would not be able to tell if this book will be the best book that you have ever read, or horribly bad. But let me tell you from the start, this is a great book. I don't know if it will make a difference to what I say, but if you read this book, you will love it. The reason why I love this book so much is easy to see, but only if you read the book. I liked the book for many reasons, but the biggest would be that I would really know what was going on in the book at all times. It had so much description that I would feel like I was right in front of it all. I could picture all of the futuristic things in the story, the buildings, the cars (called hoverbuses, most of the time), and all of the things in the story. I would also feel the same way as the characters did most of the time, when they had emotions. For example, when one of the robots that the family owned was run over by a truck, I felt the sadness that they all witnessed.
There were other things that made the story great, but overall, the description in the story conquered all.
21st December 19, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Eager a new robot, developed by Professor Ogden, one of Gavin's friends. What Eager was made for, trying to find out what it means to be alive.
12-year old Gavin Bell and his father are taking the hover bus to Gavin's friend Professor Ogden's house. When they arrive Professor Odgen greets them. He takes them to his science lab and shows them his latest invention. Eager.
A few weeks later Fleur (Gavins sister) calls her friend Chike in Nigeria. He says LifeCorp's (a company that builds robots and other stuff) new line of robots; the BDC4's are locking people in their own home. Fleurs friend Marcia owns a BDC4. It has just locked her parents in her house! Fleur, Gavin, Eager and Marcia go to LifeCorps headquarters and find out what is wrong with the BDC4's while Eager finds out what it means to be alive.
Eager is a really great book. Be sure to read the sequel: Eagers Nephew!
Eager a new robot, developed by Professor Ogden, one of Gavin's friends. What Eager was made for, trying to find out what it means to be alive.
12-year old Gavin Bell and his father are taking the hover bus to Gavin's friend Professor Ogden's house. When they arrive Professor Odgen greets them. He takes them to his science lab and shows them his latest invention. Eager.
A few weeks later Fleur (Gavins sister) calls her friend Chike in Nigeria. He says LifeCorp's (a company that builds robots and other stuff) new line of robots; the BDC4's are locking people in their own home. Fleurs friend Marcia owns a BDC4. It has just locked her parents in her house! Fleur, Gavin, Eager and Marcia go to LifeCorps headquarters and find out what is wrong with the BDC4's while Eager finds out what it means to be alive.
Eager is a really great book. Be sure to read the sequel: Eagers Nephew!
 An eager review October 17, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is a very enjoyable book. The person the story is based off of is a robot named Eager. He is the most hi-tech robot that money can but. he has some amazing features. He is a robot of the future. His owner is a laid back kand'a person. I dislike how the book moves very slow. The author sould have revaled things faster. Other than that the book is great.It has a lot of adventure in it. The kids take a lot of risk. I deffinity reccomond this book.
This book is addictive... July 31, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this book to read aloud to my 9 year old son, but it was so great that I couldn't wait and read to the end of the book after he went to sleep! When I had finished reading it aloud to him we both wanted to read the next book "Eager's nephew" (which was equally addictive!)
The story is about a robot that has been designed to learn from his own experiences. He has emotions just the same as a human. He is a pretty funky design and my son and I had a great laugh about what he is able to do with his arms and legs.
The story is at times touching and other times thrilling.
Eager is sent to live with the Bell family partly for his own safety and partly as a learning experience.
There are some interesting elements such as how he tries to wash a baby when he has never done it or seen it done before, etc. You will have a good laugh.
Social issues of injustice and inequality are important elements for the story.
This is an excellent book in that not only is it a fascinating read but it is also a starting point for excellent discussions on a number of topics including: technology, equality, emotions, reality, family values, social issues, etc.
I could not recommend this book more highly. There are no slow parts in the story at all and it includes wonderful vocabulary that children are not often exposed to these days.
If you enjoy science fiction, you will love this book.
 Getting there May 25, 2006
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love stories set in the future, anything from Star Wars, to Alpha Squad. The problem is those are for teens to adults. Eager how ever is the first book I've read that's set in the future and is for kids. I'm a 14 year old so as you can probably imagine when I saw the cover of Eager with that weird rubbery face on it...I didn't want to read it, and I probably wouldn't have if it weren't for my teacher.
I don't want you to get the wrong idea here, it's a good book, except for some few corny lines like "euphoric" and unanswered question at the ending. But like I said I'm 14 this book is directed to 10 and 12 year olds, I didn't have a hard time reading it and it kind of bored me at some points, but it wasn't that bad. I kind of enjoyed reading the book. It had an interesting plot but hardly original, robbing ideas from too many books to count. The book also felt to feminine in my opinion, a lot of the characters in the book are female, which made all the suspense scenes under whelming,. Another problem here is that the book is short, for that last hundred pages it felt like every thing happened to fast.
If I had to give this book a score out of 10 I'd probably five it a 4, but hey don't take my word for it go pick your self up a copy of Eager at the library.
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