The Flinkwater Factor (The Flinkwater Chronicles series)

Thirteen-year-old Ginger lives in Flinkwater, Iowa, a high-tech town known for manufacturing robots. When the town's computers create a national emergency, people who viewed computer screens become comatose. Ginger looks for a way to help those affected by the epidemic. The crisis also involves robots that have gone rogue, placing her at the center of a technological problem affecting her hometown.