The book is a story about a brother and a sister baking gingerbread cookies.The cookies were burnt turning them into homies. A homie in the African-American language is a slang word meaning close relationship with a another youth. The story takes them on an adventure in the city with the gingerbread homies causing a whirlwind to the lives of the characters. Read on to know how it plays out for these gingerbread homies.