Party Pal: A QUIX Book

By Jarrett Lerner and Serge Seidlitz

For fans of the Bots series by Russ Bolts and James Patterson’s House of Robots comes the adventures of Geeger, a robot going to his first party, in the fourth story in a fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book series that’s perfect for emerging readers!

Geeger the Robot is going to his best friend Tillie’s birthday party. But Geeger’s never been to a party before and doesn’t quite know what presents are. Would Tillie like a stick? Or a pile of dirt? Geeger wants to help Tillie celebrate, but maybe he shouldn’t have come! How does a robot say, “Happy Birthday?”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aladdin
• Release date: Feb 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781534480278

Jarrett Lerner

Jarrett Lerner is the award-winning creator of more than a dozen books for kids, including the EngiNerds series of middle grade novels, the Geeger the Robot series of early chapter books, the Hunger Heroes series of graphic chapter books, two activity books, the illustrated novel in verse A Work in Progress, and the Nat the Cat series of early readers. You can find him online at JarrettLerner.com and on X and Instagram at @Jarrett_Lerner. He lives with his wife and daughters in Massachusetts.

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Cover: Party Pal, by Jarrett Lerner, illustrated by Serge Seidlitz

Quix Fast * Fun * Reads

Geeger the Robot

Party Pal

Jarrett Lerner

Welcome to ALADDIN QUIX!

If you are looking for fast, fun-to-read stories with colorful characters, lots of kid-friendly humor, easy-to-follow action, entertaining story lines, and lively illustrations, then ALADDIN QUIX is for you!

But wait, there’s more!

If you’re also looking for stories with tables of contents; word lists; about-the-book questions; 64, 80, or 96 pages; short chapters; short paragraphs; and large fonts, then ALADDIN QUIX is definitely for you!

ALADDIN QUIX: The next step between ready to reads and longer, more challenging chapter books, for readers five to eight years old.

Party Pal, by Jarrett Lerner, illustrated by Serge Seidlitz, Aladdin

For Bodie, Dylan, Harper, and Jaxon

Cast of Characters

Geeger: A very, very hungry robot

DIGEST-O-TRON 5000: A machine that turns the food Geeger eats into electricity

Tillie: A student at Geeger’s school, and Geeger’s best friend

Albert Einstein: Tillie’s dog

Ms. Bork: Geeger’s teacher

Gabe, Suzie, Arjun, Olivia, Sidney, Mac, Roxy, Raul: Other kids in Geeger’s class, and also Geeger’s friends

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The Best Thing

Geeger is a robot. A very, very hungry robot.

Geeger was built by a team of scientists, then sent to a town called Amblerville. There, Geeger eats all the food that the rest of the townspeople don’t want.

Rotten eggs, moldy bread, mushy fruit—those are just a few of Geeger’s favorites!

Geeger has a brain, just like you. But Geeger’s brain doesn’t look like yours. His brain is made up of wires.

Most of the time, Geeger’s brain tells him to do