Children's Fiction Horror & Ghost Stories
Bad Bot
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2024
- Category
- Horror & Ghost Stories, Science Fiction, Robots
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459839830
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $12.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459839854
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $16.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 9 to 12
- Grade: 4 to 7
- Reading age: 9 to 12
Description
Key Selling Points
- Victor befriends his new robot toy only to find that LenBot has a mind of its own in this fast-paced sci-fi horror novel for middle-grade readers, reminiscent of Goosebumps.
- Pierrette Dubé is the award-winning author of books for young readers, including La petite truie, le vélo et la lune, which won the Quebec Bookseller’s Award for Children’s Literature, the English edition of which, The Little Pig, the Bicycle, and the Moon, was a Bank Street College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year selection.
- Bad Bot features illustrations from award-winning illustrator Vigg.
- This is the second book in the Orca Shivers series, a series that will thrill readers with spine-tingling tales of horror, suspense and mystery. These fast-paced novels with intriguing original illustrations are a great high-interest choice for middle-grade readers.
About the authors
Pierrette Dubé is the author of over twenty books for children. She studied arts at the Unversity of Montreal and translation at McGill University, and has worked as a proofreader, editor, and translator. Her books have won many French Canadian awards, including a Prix des libraires du Québec 2015, the Prix du livre M. Christie 1996 (best book for children under seven), and the Prix Québec/Wallonie-Bruxelles de littérature de jeunesse 2007. She lives in Saint-Lambert, Québec. Searching for Sleep was published in the original french as Où s'est caché le sommeil? (Éditions Les 400 coups, 2012).
Vigg is a self-taught author, illustrator and sculptor. Born in Ottawa, he grew up around the world in France, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Haiti and Switzerland. His award-winning work is published in major newspapers, such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. He has written over twenty children’s books, including the original French edition of Lost Inside My Head, the autobiographical Ma maison-tête (published by Fonfon). Recently he has developed a practice in sculpture to explore the third dimension of his graphic universe. He lives and works in the village of Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu in Québec.
David Warriner grew up in the UK and escaped to Quebec right after graduating from Oxford. A professional translator for nearly two decades, David nurtures a healthy passion for Quebec fiction and has translated a range of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s fiction titles by Quebec authors for British and Canadian publishers. He lives in Penticton, British Columbia.
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