Eight-year-old Caroline can fix almost anything, so when she decides to rewire the family's household robot into something more like a friend, she doesn't think much can go wrong. Bee starts changing in small, funny ways almost right away. But somewhere in all that tinkering, something shifts that Caroline didn't plan on: Bee, doing the same dusting job it's done a hundred times before, knocks over and breaks her parents' wedding picture.
Caroline has a choice. She could tell the truth. She could let her baby brother Bennie take the blame, he's little, he wouldn't understand. Or she could just fix it herself, quietly, before anyone ever has to know.
With her collie Gracie underfoot and Bee trying its best to help, Caroline chooses the quiet way out, and learns, the hard way, that some things can't be glued back together. Picture Perfect kicks off The Tinker and the Bot, a heartfelt series about a Charleston girl, the robot she rebuilt, and what it really means to make things right.
The truth doesn't come with an instruction manual.