Weird Little Robots by Carolyn Crimi

Author:Carolyn Crimi [Crimi, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781536206821
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2019-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

The next day was Sunday. Lark called again in the morning while Penny Rose was brushing her teeth.

“Tell her I’ll call back,” she yelled to her mom.

After breakfast, Penny Rose took Sharpie and Data out to the shed. Chimney was waiting by the door as usual.

“Chimney, we’re going to have to make a doggy door for you, except it will be a squirrel door.”

Chimney scampered in and basked in the robots’ warm greetings. Penny Rose placed Data in her usual spot by the window with Sharpie next to her. She squatted down on the floor and started rolling pennies with iPam.

“Hey, Data,” she asked, “I really need to know something. Like, a ‘future’ something.” She looked at iPam for the answer.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

“Am I going to get into the Secret Science Society?”

iPam turned to Data, whose eye spun crazily.

GET A LOCK.

Penny Rose stopped rolling the penny to iPam. She frowned at Data. “What does that mean?”

SHE MEANS FOR THE DOOR. TO THE SHED.

“Are you sure she doesn’t mean that I should make a squirrel door? Like the ones they have for dogs? ’Cause I was just thinking —”

iPam interrupted her.

SHE MEANS A LOCK. FOR THE DOOR.

“But that’s not what I asked!” Penny Rose said. Sometimes it was frustrating using iPam for every single conversation. It made things ten times more difficult.

SHE UNDERSTANDS YOUR QUESTION, FYI.

“iPam, can you just —”

Before Penny Rose could finish her sentence, Lark barged in wearing her usual getup of sunglasses and binoculars.

“You wouldn’t believe what the birds left for me today! It was the teeniest, tiniest green button you’ve ever seen, and it was right in the middle of the birdbath.” She pushed her sunglasses up and sat down. “What were you talking to the robots about?”

“Me?”

Lark snorted. “Yes, you! I just heard you talking to them!”

“Oh, I was, um, gosh, I don’t even remember.”

Penny Rose got up and started digging through the box in the corner. “Hey, what do you think of a robot made of this?” she asked, holding up an electric can opener.

“It’s fine, I guess,” Lark said. She glared at Penny Rose in an unnerving way.

“Why do you keep looking at me like that?” Penny Rose asked.

“I called you last night, and you never called me back. In fact, I called you twice. And once this morning!” She folded her arms across her chest. “I figured I should just come over here, and now I hear you talking to the robots, and you won’t tell me what you said. What’s going on?”

“Nothing is going on,” Penny Rose said. She put the can opener back in the box and rummaged around until she came upon a tiny toy train. “Do you think the robots would like this?” she asked, holding it up.

“You are being so weird.”

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