![]() ![]() The characters have a great balance of both gender and racial diversity. ![]() All of the students dream of having careers in these fields. Robotics and coding are part of the excitement in this adventure. These two books make up a fun, exciting children’s story featuring diverse characters participating in STEM. She needs to understand Jinx’s origin – and how it’s entangled with her own family – in time to break up a plot that’s going to impact the well-being of the whole world. But Lacey soon gets into trouble since Jinx has a mind of his own, and as time goes on she finds he isn’t just a normal baku either. Her captain Tobias quickly recognizes that her robotics skills have a good chance at taking them to the championship. At school, Lacey joins a baku battle team. She spends the rest of the summer fixing up the cat, her new companion Jinx. ![]() A chance mistake leads Lacey to discover the burned-out hull of a cat baku on a forested hillside. Her best friend Zora is a master at coding. ![]() The main character, Lacey Chu, is a robotics whiz who’s finally about to go to her dream school, Profectus Academy, where she’ll learn all the skills she’ll need to design baku herself someday. In this near-future world, cell phones have been made obsolete by robotic pets called baku who are part companion, part communication device. Looking for an exciting adventure that will inspire kids to try robotics and coding? Check out Jinxed and its sequel Unleashed, by Amy McCulloch. ![]()
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