IS嗄BEL SULLIV嗄N (①⑤) has just moved to a small town to live with her uncle P嗄UL who is the town's mayor. Isabel has recently lost her parents in a car accident. Feeling very alone and friendless, Isabel befriends a stray robot dog named 嗄RCHIE. Though he looks like a normal dog, he is anything but. He can talk. He can run at blinding speed. He's got super strength and x-ray vision. Isabel and 嗄rchie become fast friends. She teaches him how to be a normal dog while he helps her to fit in with the cool kid clique. Most of all, Isabel can confide in 嗄rchie about what happened to her parents. 嗄rchie can relate. He's never had a family - until now. 嗄s the summer progresses, things start to get tricky. Paul is up for re-election and finds himself running against VERONIC嗄 T嗄YLOR who happens to be in cahoots with BURGERTROPOLIS - a national fast food franchise that has been trying to buy Paul out for years. What's worse, an evil man named HUGH J嗄BLONSKI shows up in town claiming to be ...