Anne Droyd and Century Lodge

 

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Anne Droyd and Century Lodge


by Will Hadcroft (Author)

 

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ISBN: 9781843102823

 

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This Asperger adventure explores the human condition and the need to integrate into a society that demands conformity. The author's pun on android introduces the theme of alienation that runs throughout, a tool used to provide comfort to individuals who feel like aliens, excluded from their social environment.


Gezz and her best friends Malcolm and Luke are having fun on the housing estate where they live when the arrival of a stranger interrupts their everyday lives and changes the world as they know it forever. Created by a professor of robotics, Anne Droyd is left in the care of these three children, who take her to school with them and teach her how to be 'a human'. This Asperger adventure explores the human condition and the need to integrate into a society that demands conformity. The author's pun on 'android' introduces the theme of alienation that runs throughout, a tool used to provide comfort to individuals who feel like 'aliens', excluded in a social environment. Readers will be captivated by the heroic characters and the colourful plot, and engaged by Hadcroft's imaginative presentation of real-life issues such as smoking, bullying and peer acceptance.


 

ISBN 184310282
ISBN13 9781843102823
Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format Paperback
Publication date 29/09/2004
Pages 288
Weight (grammes) 350
Published in United Kingdom
Height (mm) 204
Width (mm) 151

Prologue - On the Run. 1. School's Out. 2. Three Get Together. 3. Coal Mountain. 4. The Professor. 5. My Daughter Anne. 6. The Story So Far. 7. The Fugitives. 8. Back to Normal. 9. Do Humans Dream of Electric Friends? 10. Two Minutes to Surrender. 11. 'We'll Look After Her'. 12. Just Testing. 13. Calling for Anne. 14. Back to School. 15. Systematic Instruction of Subject. 16. How to Be a Human. 17. Recharge. 18. Integrate. 19. Everybody's Friend. 20. The Humiliation. 21. Wound for Wound. 22. A Bit Different. 23. Made in the UK. 24. In Big Trouble. 25. The Interrogation. 26. Cracking the Code. 27. Century Lodge. 28. The Secret Door. 29. To the Rescue. 30. Mistaken Identity. 31. 'They've Got Gezz'. 32. The Twin. 33. 'We'll Never Get Out!' 34. Farewells and Promises. 35. Four Go Home.

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