From the masters of robot fiction, the acclaimed Norby books are puredelight for young and old alike. Now the Asimovs present the newest, most enchantingadventure of the one and only Norby . . . It's spring break for the students at the Space Academy, so Jeff Wells and his robotNorby are ready to have some fun! Unfortunately, they've decided to visit the planet Izz--where a sinister court jester is waiting with his evil bag of tricks.

A Space Academy student and his time-travelling robot stop an evil villain from taking over the Solar System in this children’s sci-fi classic. Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells, a cadet at the Space Academy on Mars, is in danger of being kicked out unless he can improve his grades. With a little help from the academy’s commandant, Jeff finds a robot named Norby to help him study. But Norby’s no ordinary robot. He has the only mini-anti-gravity device in existence. Norby’s special abilities suddenly come in handy when a villain named Ing targets Jeff’s older brother in his quest to conquer the Solar System. When Ing takes over Manhattan Island, renaming it “the Kingdom of Ing,” Norby and Jeff put studying aside to teach Ing a lesson!

While visiting the toy and game fair on planet Izz, Jeff and Norby search for a missing robot and the villain responsible for sabotaging the planet's computer system.

This tenth volume of the complete children’s sci-fi series features a time-travelling space odyssey and a spring break vacation gone terribly wrong. Norby and the Court Jester On spring break from the Space Academy, Jeff Wells and his robot, Norby, head to the planet Izz for a toy and game fair. They look forward to seeing Princess Rinda and her little robot, Pera. But when Norby receives a telepathic message from Pera—part of which is “help!”—Norby and Jeff are sure that trouble awaits. And whatever’s going on, it’s most likely thanks to the evil Ing, the new Court Jester on the planet Izz. Norby and the Terrified Taxi In an adventure that changes the course of Earth’s history, Jeff Wells and his robot, Norby, are catapulted through time and space to find a dangerous and bad-mannered prankster, Garc the Great. In their search for Garc, Jeff, Norby, and their colleagues are trapped by a powerful alien Connector Ring. Now all they have to do is escape, find Garc, save the human race, and return to Earth in the correct time frame!

“A lucid overview of [environmental] problems and a compelling call to action.” —Publishers Weekly From two of science fiction’s most celebrated and brilliant minds—Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl—comes the second edition of Our Angry Earth, a comprehensive analysis of today's environmental threats and a guide on how we can heal our planet, with an introduction and afterword from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson. Our Angry Earth provides a candid picture of the present and many possibilities for a better, cleaner future. From the greenhouse effect and depletion of our ozone layer to nuclear waste and species extinction, Asimov and Pohl not only present accessible explanations of complex scientific processes but ways we can improve our behavior and relationship with the planet, whether it be involvement in social activism or individual lifestyle changes. Kim Stanley Robinson, author of New York Times bestsellers 2312, New York2140, and the internationally renowned Mars trilogy, brings his decades-spanning expertise in climate change to Our Angry Earth’s introduction and afterword. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Jeff Wells purchases a used robot named Norby to help him improve his grades at the Space Academy, but learns that Norby was constructed by a genius using parts from an alien spacecraft and has unexpected powers