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Reviewed by Janelle Fila for Readers' Favorite
The Making of Boy (Liberty Book 2) by Regina Puckett is a young adult science fiction that measures man against machine. Eight hundred years ago, a Great War killed millions of people. Not only were lives lost, but so were most of the technological advances as well. The few families that survived committed to passing down whatever knowledge they possessed to future generations, so that their descendants might one day be able to use the lost technology to rebuild and start over. Tinker's family was charged with taking care of the remaining photographs of the world's people, animals, and plants.
When Tinker discovers he's dying, he knows he must pass on this responsibility to his heirs. But the only one left in Tinker's family is Boy, a tiny robot. After Tinker's death, Boy is in charge of the world's photographs. But how can he help a world that only sees him as a pile of metal, incapable of human emotions like thinking and feeling and loving. Boy wants to prove that he is more than what the world sees him as and in the process discovers a powerful lesson.
This is a really interesting concept that I think young readers especially will enjoy. There are all kinds of questions a young person can ask themselves as they read this story. What would we do without technology? What are the limitations of artificial intelligence? What makes a human a human? Nice job in getting readers to think beyond the pages with a very interesting and provocative story.
