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The everything machine

Author: Matt Novak
Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook, 2009.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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What if you had a machine that did everything? One that cleaned your house, mowed your lawn, scratched your back, even colored your coloring books? That's what the people of Planet Quirk had. And for them, life was so easy that on most days they didn't even have to get out of bed. But on one fateful day, the machine stopped working.
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Genre/Form: Science fiction
Fiction
Juvenile works
Children's stories
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Matt Novak
ISBN: 9781596432864 1596432861
OCLC Number: 317455952
Notes: "A Neal Porter book."
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Responsibility: by Matt Novak.
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What if you had a machine that did everything? One that cleaned your house, mowed your lawn, scratched your back, even colored your coloring books? That's what the people of Planet Quirk had. And for them, life was so easy that on most days they didn't even have to get out of bed. But on one fateful day, the machine stopped working.

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Good for the beginning reader

by AnchorageSchools (WorldCat user published 2009-12-09) Very Good Permalink

This is a very colorful picture book designed for the beginning reader K-2.  The story is about a machine that ocmes to town to do EVERYTHING.  When the machine breaks down the people don't know how to do anything.  Eventually they find out they enjoy doing things for themselves. 

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