Rabbit & Robot

Andrew Smith

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781534422223

"This provocative jaunt…dissects society, technology, othering, and what makes humanity human." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An unpredictable, gross, and prescient rumination on modernity, media consumption, and machine-aided communication." — Booklist (starred review) Told with Andrew Smith's signature dark humor, Rabbit & Robot tells the story of Cager Messer, a boy who's stranded on the Tennessee— his father's lunar-cruise utopia—with insane robots. To help him shake his Woz addiction, Billy and Rowan transport Cager Messer up to the Tennessee, a giant lunar-cruise ship orbiting the moon. Meanwhile, Earth, in the midst of thirty simultaneous wars, burns to ash beneath them. And as the robots on board become increasingly insane and cannibalistic, and the Earth becomes a toxic wasteland, the boys have to wonder if they'll be stranded alone in space forever.In Rabbit & Robot, Andrew Smith, Printz Honor author of Grasshopper Jungle, makes you laugh, cry, and consider what it really means to be human.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright
• Cheese Ball!
• I Am the Worm
• Cager Messer’s List of Things He’s Never Done
• Hocus Pocus, and Kansas Is Full of Shit
• A Visit to the Hotel Kenmore
• Getting On Board
• Mojave Field
• Rabbit & Robot
• In with the Cogs
• Are We There Yet?
• Printer Ketchup
• Like Nothing Else in Tennessee
• Parker, My Valet
• The Longest Elevator Ride of My Life
• Dr. Geneva, and What Space Does to Teenage Boys
• Of Clocks, Cogs, and the Sense of Smell
• Captains Outrageous
• Canard à l’Orange
• Good King Wenceslas, and a Serious Obelisk of Friendship
• Deck 21
• I Am the Worm
• Never Send a Human to Do a Cog’s Job
• It Really Is Christmas
• The Proper Way to Prepare a Curry
• I’m Pretty Sure We’re Upside Down Now
• It Happens Here, I Guess
• A Pedestrian Assessment of Alsatian History
• A Cruise-Directing Phoenix from the Ashes
• Stopped at the Wicket
• The Boy from First Class, and a Fire in the Bank
• An Infinity of Nevers, and a Mission to Find a Can Opener
• Captains Get to Do Whatever They Want to Do
• Right Side Up, Upside Down
• There’s a Bright Side to Just About Everything
• Unless You Happen to Be Dying to Die
• We Raise Our Hands
• A Most Unfortunate Dane
• Billy Hinman Goes to Church
• Getting Out of the Memphis Hotel
• Thanks for Not Killing Me
• Out of Bed and Into the Tennessee
• The Lost Girls, and the Boy in the Bucket
• Duncan’s Horses
• Put Your Welcome Faces On!
• The Giant Blue Fetus in Space
• He Makes a Great Gasket
• Tricky Words
• The Things We’d Never Seen Before
• Happy New Year, Happy No Year
• Freedom, and an Unemployed Cog in the Hallway
• Billy Hinman, Billy Hinman
• This Was the Tennessee
• We Dance, and Queen Dot Accounts for Mexican Cuisine and Human Evolution
• In Which We Find Out Where King Carlos Is and Suffer a Blow to Our Self-Esteem
• Herman Melville Would Be Pleased
• Eaters and Feeders
• First Night of the Neveryear
• It’s Time to Eat Now, and I Become Aware of My Balls
• The Cruise Ship to End All Cruise Ships
• The Nicest Giraffe I Ever Met
• A Sleep Sandwich
• Dumb Pointless Optimism
• You Better Watch Out for the Monkeys
• Cager Messer’s Can Opener and Push-Ups List
• Times That Aren’t Now
• A Normal California Boy
• Getting the Wrong Idea
• Shakespeare’s Crowbar
• The Porridge of Officer Dennis
• If Thy Right Eye Offend Thee
• What Kind of World
• Mooney, Mooney!
• This Is What We Saw
• Are You One of Us?
• Moon to Moon
• Just Like Home
• Helpless, Helpless, Helpless
• v.1 Human Beings
• Caveman & Spaceman
• The Unlock Code
• Righting the Ship
• The Doctor and the Reverend
• Epilogue: It Took Dominion Everywhere
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright