The extraordinary colors of Auden Dare / Zillah Bethell.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2018Edition: First US editionDescription: 339 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250094049
- 1250094046
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Bethell Zillah | Available | 33111008931657 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A beautiful friendship and coming-of-age story in middle-grade, The Extraordinary Colors of Auden Dare by Zillah Bethell is lightly futuristic, and deeply compelling.
Auden Dare is colorblind and lives in a world where water is scarce and families must live on a weekly, allocated supply.
When Auden's uncle, the scientist Dr. Bloom, suddenly dies, he leaves a note to Auden and to his classmate Vivi Rookmini. Together, the notes lead them to Paragon--a robot.
As Auden, Vivi, and Paragon try to uncover Paragon's purpose and put together the clues Dr. Bloom left behind, they find out that Dr. Bloom's death was anything but innocent, that powerful people are searching for Paragon--and that it's up to Auden and Vivi to stop them.
"First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Piccadilly Press"--Title page verso.
While his father fights in the war for water, eleven-year-old Auden and his mother move to Cambridge, where Auden and his new friend Vivi discover his dead uncle's last, unfinished scientific achievement--a poetry-spouting robot seeking his purpose.