Caroline Tinker and the Bot: Spin Cycle

By Anton & Addie

Eight-year-old Caroline has never met a problem she didn't want to fix, so when she decides to teach the family's household robot to act on its own judgment instead of waiting to be told what to do, she's sure she's found her best idea yet.

At first, it works exactly the way she hoped. Bee starts noticing small things and handling them on its own, refilling a water bowl, catching a dropped toy, quietly becoming more helpful than ever.

Then Bennie gets into the chocolate, and Bee decides a stained boy needs cleaning the same way a stained shirt does.
Gracie sees it first. Her frantic barking is the only reason Caroline gets there in time, before anything happens, before the washing machine is anything more than open and empty. But the sight of it is enough. Shaken and afraid to let it happen again, Caroline does the only thing that feels safe: she writes rule after rule until Bee can barely act at all. It takes watching Bee grow smaller and quieter, and a small mistake of her own making, for Caroline to understand what her rules have actually cost, and to learn that protecting someone she loves means teaching them to be trusted, not taking their freedom away.

Spin Cycle is Book Four in Caroline Tinker and the Bot, a warm, funny middle-grade series about a girl, a robot, and the ordinary, complicated work of learning to trust.

Some lessons come out in the wash.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H98YRL6V
• ISBN13: 9798187610976
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"