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Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Zoe Washington isn't sure what to write. What does a girl say to the father she's never met, hadn't heard from until his letter arrived on her twelfth birthday, and who's been in prison for a terrible crime? A crime he says he never committed. Could Marcus really be innocent? Zoe is determined to uncover the truth. Even if it means hiding his letters and her investigation from the rest of her family. Everyone else thinks Zoe's worrying about doing...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Grace is crushed to learn that her grandparents' bakery might close after thirty years and wonders how her own business, which they inspired, can survive if theirs cannot, but she and her friends use their talents and newly-acquired business skills to try to save the day.
8) Bake sale
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Cupcake runs a successful bakery with his best friend, Eggplant, but dreams of going abroad to meet his idol, Turkish Delight, who is the most famous pastry chef in the world.
9) Bliss
Author
Series
Bliss novels volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss wants to work magic in her family's bakery as her parents do, but when they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving her the Bliss Cookery Booke.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In her second adventure in the Land of Fake-Believe, Princess Pink meets Scaredy-Pants Wolf, a baker whose business has been robbed by Little Red Quacking Hood--and to save the bakery Princess must figure out why the ducks are suddenly so interested in pies.
Author
Series
Cupcake novels (Lisa Schroeder) volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sophie is excited to have the opportunity to audition for a television commercial until she learns the company is Beatrice's Brownies, the biggest competitor to her best friend's family's cupcake shop. Includes recipes for chocolate treats.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As seventeen-year-old Rubi secretly juggles participating in a baking competition, improving her grades for college admission, and a newfound romance, she soon realizes she must learn how to manage her family's expectations while finding her own path.
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2015: Grace volume 2
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 2
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
American girl
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 2
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
American girl
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her grandparents' bakery and her recent visit to Paris, nine-year-old Grace leads her friends in starting La Petite Patisserie, making and selling French pastries at school and special events, but they soon discover that starting a new business is not always easy--or fun.
16) Pat-a-cake
Author
Publisher
Flowerpot Press, a Division of Flowerpot Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, with the baker drawn as a friendly bear.
17) Cake
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Wilma Sue is wary of the eccentric sisters, Ruth and Naomi, at her new foster home, but wonders if she might have a true home with them, baking and delivering cakes and tending their chickens, until she is implicated in a series of neighborhood crimes.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On the night before Christmas, a spark of magic lights up Lita's Pastelería, and Esperanza Caramelo blinks open her eyes. Esperanza is a spun-sugar ornament, meant to sit atop the Nochebuena cake—but tonight she whirls through the bakery, singing and dancing, throwing a fiesta with all the other ornaments until . . . disaster strikes! Can the cake be saved in time for Christmas? The clock is ticking, but on Nochebuena, anything is possible—and...
20) Salt and Sugar
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Trust neither thin-bottomed frying pans nor Molinas. Lari Ramires has always known this to be true. In Olinda, Brazil, her family’s bakery, Salt, has been at war with the Molinas’ bakery across the street, Sugar, for generations. But Lari’s world turns upside down when her beloved grandmother passes away. On top of that, a big supermarket chain has moved to town, forcing many of the small businesses to close. Determined to protect her home,...
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