Orvis

Ages 10-12; grades 5-7

It all started the day Tabitha (Toby) West learned she would have to leave her school on Earth and go to Mars. While off school grounds, feeling sorry for herself, she met a grumpy robot (ORVIS) already three days late to his arrival at his final resting spot, The Dump. Toby and Thaddeus gradually learn some of ORVIS’s nearly 400 year history and become determined to save him from destruction. They unexpectedly end up joining ORVIS in a cross-continent trek to get to Toby’s great-grandmother’s house, where ORVIS could live in peace. In order to get there, though, they would have to survive a journey across The Empty.