Parchment House

by Cara Lockhart Smith

Parchment House is a grim orphanage, whose famished and over-worked inmates are cruelly governed. The arrival of a new, all-purpose robot named Archibald, however, changes everything as the children refuse to be intimidated and stage a rebellion.

Paperback

First published February 1, 1989

Reviews

[S.P. Dawes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this story at school when I was 11, it's stayed with me for two decades. That's how much this book affected me. It was brilliant and probably the reason I picked up my own pen.