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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2012 by Evan Kuhlman
Illustrations copyright © 2012 by Iacopo Bruno
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The text for this book is set in ITC New Baskerville.
The illustrations for this book are rendered in pen and ink.
0312 FFG
First Edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kuhlman, Evan.
Brother from a box / Evan Kuhlman ; illustrated by Iacopo Bruno.
p. cm.
Summary: Sixth-grader Matt Rambeau finds out what it is like to have a brother when his father, a computer genius, creates a robot kid that goes to school with Matt, shares his feelings and ideas, plays, does chores, fights for his “life” when chased by spies, and becomes a part of the family.
ISBN 978-1-4424-2658-0 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4424-2660-3 (eBook)
[1. Brothers—Fiction. 2. Family life—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 3. Robots—Fiction. 4. Artificial intelligence—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 7. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.]
I. Bruno, Iacopo, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.K9490113Br 2012 · [Fic]—dc23 · 2011033973