ISABEL SULLIVAN 一五 has just moved to a small town to live with her uncle PAUL 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 ARCHIE 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 Archie 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 Archie about what happened to her parents Archie can relate He s never had a family - until now As the summer progresses, things start to get tricky Paul is up for re-election and finds himself running against VERONICA TAYLOR 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 JABLONSKI shows up in town claiming to be