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Eager's Nephew [Hardcover]

Helen Fox


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Aug 8 2006
It is the future.

Twenty years have passed since Eager’s first adventures with the Bell family. Scientists are now banned from building robots that can think for themselves and feel emotion, like Eager. He and other robots have spent years in hiding. But Eager secretly visits the Bell family, and his headstrong nephew, a most unusual new robot named Jonquil, stows away on the visit. They arrive at the Bells just in time—for mysterious and dangerous things are happening to the family and their friends. Eager and Jonquil’s special abilities could save the day.

The human world is totally new to Jonquil, who can’t always tell fact from fiction. Excitable Jonquil is in his element. When he isn’t in danger himself, he’s causing havoc for everyone else. . . .

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books (Aug 8 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385746733
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385746731
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 386 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,480,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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From School Library Journal

Grade 5–8—This sequel to Eager (Random, 2004) takes place 10 years after its predecessor, at the end of the 21st century, when mentally and emotionally independent robots are illegal and subject to destruction. Eager, his sister Allegra, and several other robots capable of independence from humans have gone into hiding. They have learned to "reproduce": Allegra has created Jonquil, her "son," who can morph into a variety of shapes and interface with almost any kind of electronic device. Once a year, Eager takes a risk: disguising himself as a domestic-servant robot, he travels to see the Bells, the family he became close to in the first book. Jonquil begs to go along, as he has never spent any time among humans. Eager refuses, but Jonquil conceals himself and joins him anyway. A certain amount of comedy and adventure ensues, but both are restrained and clever in a way that the threat of a grand-scale robot rebellion in the first novel was not. The stakes are much lower here, and the characters get out of any danger they're in pretty easily. Fans of the previous book will probably want to read this one; others are likely to be turned off by its slow pace.—Walter Minkel, New York Public Library
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From Booklist

In this sequel to Eager (2004), also set in a futuristic England, Eager the robot continues to visit the Bell family, even though new government restrictions ban robots of his type. Eager doesn't know that he is joined by Jonquil, a young spiritlike robot that can send parts of himself into any machine and read its electromagnetic patterns. Like Eager, Jonquil learns by making mistakes. Havoc ensues as Jonquil blunders into situations, with Eager in pursuit. Along with many comic moments, Fox creates a future world gone seriously wrong, with a huge divide between the few haves and the many have-nots. The hint that the story will continue in additional volumes is suggested in the open-ended story line about a mysterious general who claims to want to correct the societal imbalances. Those who haven't read the first book may be confused by the complex world that Fox creates, but readers already familiar with Eager will enjoy this sequel. Todd Morning
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kept Us Turning the Pages Jan 28 2007
By family of readers - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
After reading Helen Fox's first book, Eager, we were eager to read her next installment, Eager's Nephew. We were not disappointed. Both of my elementary aged sons read the book straight through. Even my high school daughter picked up the book and couldn't put it down. Jonquil, Ms. Fox's latest hero, is lovable and appealing to reader's across the age spectrum. The book's appeal is broad, as well, because it challenges readers to consider a future that is bold and different yet presented in a manner that is appropriate and nonthreatening to younger readers. After finishing Eager's Nephew, my youngest child immediately said, "Let's look on Amazon to see when Helen Fox's next book is coming out." So, please, Ms. Fox, carry on.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Eager's Nephew a huge disappointment Nov 21 2006
By Aussie Alan - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
After the wonderful first instalment "Eager", with all of its humour and thought-provoking issues, I was immensely let down by "Eager's Nephew". I kept turning the page waiting for something, anything, to happen. But it never did. The characters were one-dimensional, humourless and there was no point (or plot) to the book that I could find. I really get the impression Helen Fox started with a few interesting ideas and then was given only 48 hours to write the actual book. It can't have taken longer than that. I really hope that the forthcoming third instalment returns to the standard of the first one.

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