Is There Life Planet

by Mildred Ames

Feeling pressured and unhappy in her everyday life, a young girl welcomes the opportunity of having a look-alike life-size doll take her place at school and at home. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525325948
• ISBN13: 9780525325949
• Release Date: September 1975
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

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The story puts the notion that no matter how badly you might want someone else to solve your problems for you, it will lead to more problems for you to solve yourself. Don't like the students or teachers at school? Send in a robot double to handle them. Not getting along with your parents? Expand the robot double's duties to them, too. But if the robot double is really living your whole life better than you can... what will you do then? There are no easy answers to making the process of growing up easy. In the end, when Holis says, "I've changed my mind, I don't want this any more" she discovers that she really can handle trouble by herself.