Otto the robot learns how to swing from vines like his monkey friends.

"Blippo and Beep are robots who are also best friends. Tehy are different, but they like being with each other. The sky is blue and the sun is shining, but Blippo does not care. He feels funny. Can Beep help him figure out what is wrong and make him feel better.

Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

Jo Linden lives in a world where there are no atomic weapons, and the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is played out in the Pax Games, fought with powerful robotic mecha war machines operated by young pilots; Jo needs the prize money to save her father's mecha repair shop, and keep what is left of her family together, but when competing pilots start dying from poisoning, Jo finds herself caught up in Cold War politics and political...