Schoolbot 9000: A Graphic Novel

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Penguin, Jul 22, 2025 - Juvenile Fiction - 288 pages
A hilarious—and ominous—new graphic novel series about what happens when one school’s human teachers are replaced by robots!

“Freethinkers, rebels and techno-skeptics will find a lot to love here.”—The New York Times

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE WEEK JUNIOR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR


James Gordon is already annoyed by the robots in his life—the drones that look like bugs, the dogbots at the park, his HomeBot babysitter, and now? He’s just found out that Schoolbots are replacing all of his favorite middle school teachers.

James’s teachers have always cared about his feelings and supported his art, but with the news that artificial intelligence is replacing them, James’s life feels like it’s full spiraling into chaos. All the Schoolbots care about is improving students’ test scores and efficiency, and they’ve had some seriously unnerving glitches.

James is determined to fight back but is going to need some help from a very unlikely ally in order to keep these robot teachers from taking over his school.
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
2
Section 3
26
Section 4
27
Section 5
28
Section 6
54
Section 7
61
Section 8
67
Section 16
119
Section 17
124
Section 18
147
Section 19
159
Section 20
170
Section 21
175
Section 22
176
Section 23
177

Section 9
89
Section 10
90
Section 11
91
Section 12
93
Section 13
96
Section 14
98
Section 15
115
Section 24
195
Section 25
216
Section 26
231
Section 27
243
Section 28
259
Section 29
267
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About the author (2025)

Sam Hepburn is the creator of the comic strip Welcome to Agency X and Questionable Quotebook. Before she became a full-time cartoonist, Sam led a team of writers developing case studies for one of the world’s biggest tech companies (she wasn’t allowed to use the word robot.) She’s based in England and Schoolbot 9000 is her debut graphic novel.

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