Eleven cookies came out perfect. The twelfth one wants a union.
Alex Northwood thinks the family's new beta-test oven is boring. So he and his twin sister, Mia, upgrade it, with safety flags in place and Dad "supervising" from the couch. Then their robot cat, RoboKitty, takes a nap on the control panel.
Batch 47 produces eleven perfect cookies and one that sits up and complains about the heat.
His name is Ginger. He has a crooked button and a permanent smile he never asked for. He also has one big goal: unionize the cookies before Santa eats another one.
But it's hard to organize the town's baked goods when something is stealing frosting across Gearford, leaving sticky tracks that get wider every night. The grownups blame raccoons. A few blame Dad. With the Cookie Festival almost here, Mia has the measurements and Alex has the traps. Their robot dog, RoboPup, has his nose on the trail. Ginger has a graham-cracker clipboard and plenty to say about it.
Nobody in Gearford is ready for how big this is about to get.