All his life Benji, now ten, has been sickly and he has long been targeted by the school bully, but after a seizure Benji gets a therapy dog that is not only big enough to protect him, it can also talk.
Louise learns about a bake sale and decides to make cupcakes with her brother. But their experiments with the colored frosting goes poorly, and Louise must find a way to create artwork out of the disastrous cupcakes.
"The cook in the lunchroom serves great food! But now her cookbook is missing and her cooking and food are just awful. Where is the cookbook? Did a crook steal it?"--Page 4 of cover.