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Granny Grabbers' Daring Rescue
On sale
7th February 2013
Price: £5.99
Genre
Children's, Teenage & Educational / Children's / Teenage Fiction & True Stories / Family & Home Stories (children's
Selected:
ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444904505
Delilah Smart’s life hasn’t been the same since childcare robot Granny Grabbers entered her world and made it whizz bang wonderful fun, no matter how determined her parents are to make it dull dull dull. And it’s not long before Granny Grabbers and Delilah stumble upon their next adventure …
When local department store Blingman’s hires an army of robotic cleaning personnel made by Happy Home Robotics, Granny Grabbers recognises a dear friend from her ‘childhood’ in the Happy Home Robotics Laboratory – PUG is clearly asking to be rescued from a life of cleaning servitude, and so it’s action stations for Granny Grabbers and the team. Soon they devise a cunning plan that involves covert shopping trips, Easter bunny disguises, magic vanishing acts and a troupe of Paintball Pirates.
And of course no daring rescue is complete without a grabbmobile …
When local department store Blingman’s hires an army of robotic cleaning personnel made by Happy Home Robotics, Granny Grabbers recognises a dear friend from her ‘childhood’ in the Happy Home Robotics Laboratory – PUG is clearly asking to be rescued from a life of cleaning servitude, and so it’s action stations for Granny Grabbers and the team. Soon they devise a cunning plan that involves covert shopping trips, Easter bunny disguises, magic vanishing acts and a troupe of Paintball Pirates.
And of course no daring rescue is complete without a grabbmobile …
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