“As the single-largest contributor to the College of Engineering,” Mr. Riley continues, “let me just say that this is a great day for Notre Dame! And, if I may quote legendary author Kurt Vonnegut, ‘Science is magic that works.’
“So three cheers for Professor Elizabeth Hayes and her magical robotic creation, E, the substitute student!”
As a dozen people start singing the “cheer, cheer” part of the Notre Dame fight song, E and I climb aboard our bikes.
We pedal away, stirring up a wake of swirling autumn leaves, and E can’t resist showing off all sorts of bike stunts he learned when Mom slipped a BMX-treme DVD into his internal disk drive.
CONTENTS
COVER
TITLE PAGE
WELCOME
QUICK NOTE FROM BICKFORD KIDD
PART 1: YEAR OF THE BIRD CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36
CHAPTER 37
CHAPTER 38
CHAPTER 39
CHAPTER 40
CHAPTER 41
CHAPTER 42
CHAPTER 43
CHAPTER 44
CHAPTER 45
CHAPTER 46
PART 2: THE QUEST FOR THE BIRD’S NEST CHAPTER 47
CHAPTER 48
CHAPTER 49
CHAPTER 50
CHAPTER 51
CHAPTER 52
CHAPTER 53
CHAPTER 54
CHAPTER 55
CHAPTER 56
CHAPTER 57
CHAPTER 58
CHAPTER 59
CHAPTER 60
CHAPTER 61
CHAPTER 62
CHAPTER 63
CHAPTER 64
CHAPTER 65
CHAPTER 66
CHAPTER 67
CHAPTER 68
CHAPTER 69
CHAPTER 70
CHAPTER 71
CHAPTER 72
CHAPTER 73
CHAPTER 74
CHAPTER 75
CHAPTER 76
CHAPTER 77
CHAPTER 78
CHAPTER 79
CHAPTER 80
CHAPTER 81
CHAPTER 82
CHAPTER 83
CHAPTER 84
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