ISABEL SULLIVAN (15) 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...