“Brimmed with adventure, nature, and robots, this book is a perfect book for middle graders!”

Review by Rayleigh Setser

Can a robot survive in the wilderness?

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is—but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island’s unwelcoming animal inhabitants.

As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home—until, one day, the robot’s mysterious past comes back to haunt her.

From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.

Roz the robot will tug on heart strings and make you laugh out loud in The Wild Robot. Brimmed with adventure, nature, and robots, this book is a perfect book for middle graders!

I listened to this audiobook and was thoroughly entertained by the narrator and storyline. There are educational scenes where Roz learns about the behavior of the animals and there are plenty of heart-thumping circumstances that have readers/listeners biting their nails. I especially appreciated how Roz views the nature of the animals preying on each other as "natural" without being gruesome and vivid; I think a lot of middle grade books portray animals with humanistic morals and make predators "bad" or vegan for the sake of the story. Which is fine, and I think it's funny, but The Wild Robot would have animals huddled together in the winter to survive in one scene, and then a fox would snack on a goose or something and all the animals were just like "Welp, we gotta eat! We'll miss whats-his-name" and then carry on, just like nature. So in a lot of ways, this book has documentary-style humor, but on a third-grade level.

That being said, there are some sad scenes because we, as readers, do get attached to certain characters and there are some heart-tugging moments. But everything is appropriate for third-graders, in my opinion.

Overall, I really enjoyed the book and look forward to reading the next one in the series; as well as watching the movie once it comes out!

Content Ratings:

2. Very mild action (mentions common injuries, like broken bones, without gruesome details),

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