by Peter Brown
First published 2025
Roz awakens on a remote island where she was never meant to be. The robot finds herself stranded in untamed wilderness, completely out of her element. She faces creatures she has no programming to understand and terrain that challenges every circuit in her mechanical body. The island's animal residents become her unlikely teachers as Roz struggles to survive in this natural world. She must decode the language of the wild and master skills no factory ever installed in her systems. Each day brings new lessons about adaptation and belonging. The mechanical visitor slowly transforms from an outsider into something unexpected. What begins as a fight for survival becomes a journey toward finding where she truly belongs. The island that once seemed hostile gradually reveals itself as something Roz never anticipated she could want.
Genres: fiction, science-fiction, nature, animals, adventure
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Island
48 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers