A Robot Squashed My Teacher

Name: A Robot Squashed My Teacher
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

by Pooja Puri, illustrated by Allen Fatimaharan

Interest age: 9 to 11
Reading age: 8+

Published by Macmillan Children's Books, 2022

Adventure
Chapter books
Funny
Science fiction

About this book

Esha Verma is a self-proclaimed genius inventor, who is assisted in her scientific endeavours by her slightly apprehensive apprentice, Broccoli. Esha is absolutely determined to win the Young Inventor of the Year contest with her RoarEasy, a translation device for animals and humans. As she’s making a few adjustments to the machine, she accidentally turns her teacher, Monsieur Crépeau, into a pigeon. Undeterred by this minor setback, Esha discovers that she needs a molecular modulator to transform him back into a human being. Fortuitously, one such machine is currently on loan to the Central Research Laboratory, which happens to be down the road. Esha, Broccoli and their respective pets, Berty the baby T-Rex and Archibald the tortoise, along with Monsieur Crépeau in pigeon form, sneak into the laboratory. However, locating the modulator proves to be more difficult than Esha expected, especially when her nemesis, Ernie Rathbone, orders his robot to capture them.

About the author

Pooja has loved writing stories since she was a child. She first tasted publishing success with her short story, ‘Chess’, and later graduated from King’s College London with a degree in English anguage and literature. Whilst at university she read for a publishing house and has since worked in the education sector. In 2014, she was chosen as a winner of the Ideas Tap Writers’ Centre Norwich Inspires competition. In 2017, she successfully completed an MA in writing for young people at Bath Spa University. Her debut novel, The Jungle, was released in 2017 and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018.

She is currently working on her second book, a historical novel set in the Elizabethan era. Pooja is interested in exploring the idea of boundaries and experimenting with different voices. Based in London, she is represented by Lauren Gardner at the Bell Lomax Moreton Agency.

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