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