SOLVED. MG Girl Robot book from the 70's. [s]

[Daisy X]

I picked this book up in middle school during the 70s and it stuck with me even though I don't remember the title or author.

It is about a girl who is befriended by an attractive professional woman who feeds her eclairs and pastries and all sorts of dessert foods. Slowly, the girl is seduced to stay with this woman but becomes sick of all the sweet foods and wants "real" food. She then discovers that she is being replaced by a robot for some sort of global conspiracy. I also remember there is a little switch in the back of the neck that turns off the robots. I've been trying to figure out what this book was forever but it remains a mystery!

[Rainbowheart]

Miss Bianca?

[Daisy X]

Rainbowheart wrote: "Miss Bianca?" Nope, but that looks like a fun book!

[Rainbowheart]

Could you explain more what you mean by "she is being replaced by a robot?"

Do you mean she turns into a robot? Or there's a robot version of the girl that has been created that is impersonating her?

Were the robots in the book humanoid-looking, like androids?

[Ayshe]

Is There Life on a Plastic Planet??

[Daisy X]

Ayshe wrote: "Is There Life on a Plastic Planet??"

Oh, my gosh, I think this was it!! Wish there was more info online but I guess it's pretty obscure!

[Kris]

I see your header is marked Solved. Glad you found your book, Booktube.

Kirkus Review:
"Hollis Brewster, overweight and pushed toward over-achievement by an overstructured mother, is caught up in a world of children's lib when she finds a shop of living dolls run by another living doll (literally, it turns out) called Ms. Eudora--the kind of person she'd always imagined as a big sister. Convinced that she is participating in an ""important scientific experiment,"" Hollis permits Eudora and company to construct a lifelike mechanical model of herself to replace her in school and at all the other places she finds unendurable (dancing lessons, piano lessons, etc.). Complications arise when her ""wretched cousin"" Addison, a show-off whose lack of direction and control is as frustrating as Hollis' scheduled life, discovers the daily switch between Hollis and the doll and joins in the game. The constant diet of sweets and the insipid ""friends"" provided at the shop eventually pale, and Hollis wants to return to her rightful place, but the Hollis doll refuses to yield. In the end it is emotion that conquers the doll, and by then clever kids will have figured out that Ms. Eudora, the ""friends,"" and everyone involved in the shop are automatons. While the message about the creation of robots by programming parents may or may not hit home, youngsters will probably have fun with this."

Amazon description:
"Chubby Hollis' nagging relatives and teasing schoolmates drive her to tell her troubles to a friendly doll-shop manager until the day she begins to wonder whether her companion is real or imaginary"

[Kaitley]

Booktube wrote: "I picked this book up in middle school during the 70s and it stuck with me even though I don't remember the title or author.

It is about a girl who is befriended by an attractive professional woma..."

I've been trying to find this book forever and when I read your description of it I literally got the chills because I remembered the same details like the eclairs/pastries and the switch on the back of the neck. I think it is "Is there life on a plastic planet?" but I'm going to go read it and see!!