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Jinxed
by Amy McCulloch
This was absolutely adorable. A great mix of STEM, fiction, scifi, strong female characters, and middle school.
Lacey Chu is a middle schooler living in a contained city owned by MONCHA, a corporation that makes Bakus- a customizable smart pet (think smart phone, but more, and shaped like an animal). Lacey's one dream is to work for MONCHA but first she needs to be accepted into the highly competitive MONCHA school Profectus, a challenge since she'd be a scholarship student and can't afford the required level 3 baku. It feels like her life is over when she gets a dreaded rejection letter from Profectus and is forced to get a lowly level 1 baku bug. But then when she gets into a fight with the local bully Lacey finds what appears to be a junked baku. She repairs it and her life turns completely around, but Profectus isn't what it seems like on the surface and is her new Baku everything it appears?
I would like a baku please.
I have to say, I read the part about the bakus fighting I was absolutely horrified. I just don't understand how you can force something meant to be a companion to destroy itself for fun. I kept thinking of animal fighting rings and how horrible that all is. I know they are robots, but it just felt super horrifying to me.
I loved how Lacey was super into creating things with her hands and a junkyard engineer.
Lacey Chu is a middle schooler living in a contained city owned by MONCHA, a corporation that makes Bakus- a customizable smart pet (think smart phone, but more, and shaped like an animal). Lacey's one dream is to work for MONCHA but first she needs to be accepted into the highly competitive MONCHA school Profectus, a challenge since she'd be a scholarship student and can't afford the required level 3 baku. It feels like her life is over when she gets a dreaded rejection letter from Profectus and is forced to get a lowly level 1 baku bug. But then when she gets into a fight with the local bully Lacey finds what appears to be a junked baku. She repairs it and her life turns completely around, but Profectus isn't what it seems like on the surface and is her new Baku everything it appears?
I would like a baku please.
I loved how Lacey was super into creating things with her hands and a junkyard engineer.