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  Published by

  Delacorte Press

  an imprint of

  Random House Children's Books

  a division of Random House, Inc.

  New York

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product

  of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons,

  living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Text copyright © 2006 by Mark Crilley

  Akiko, Spuckler Boach, Poog, Mr. Beeba, Gax, and all the other characters contained within, their likenesses and other indicia are trademark Mark Crilley. All rights reserved.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Crilley, Mark.

  Akiko: pieces of Gax / Mark Crilley — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Sixth-grader Akiko and her friends from the planet Smoo travel to the upside-down city of Gollarondo, where an accident befalls Gax the robot and a search begins for all his missing pieces.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-51078-5

  [1. Life on other planets—Fiction. 2. Robots—Fiction. 3. Japanese Americans—Fiction.

  4. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 5. Science fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.C869275Ab 2006

  [Fic]—dc22

  2006006033

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