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Zoe Washington stories volume 1
Language
English
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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
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.
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
Series
Love sugar magic volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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For Fans of Encanto: Middle Grade
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Leonora Logroño's family owns the most beloved bakery in Rose Hill, Texas, spending their days conjuring delicious cookies and cakes for any occasion. And no occasion is more important than the annual Dia de los Muertos festival. Leo hopes that this might be the year that she gets to help prepare for the big celebration-but, once again, she is told she's too young. Sneaking out of school and down to the bakery, she discovers that her mother, aunt,...
7) 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
Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 34
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Spring has sprung in River Heights, along with a brand-new cupcake café! The Lucky Ladybug, run by twin bakers and celebrities Gwendolyn and Carolyn Porter, is the talk of the town. Nancy, Bess, and George can't wait to taste some of the delicious cupcakes! But on the day of the opening, the ceremony--and the cupcakes--are ruined by hundreds of live ladybugs that invade the store. It's up to Nancy and the Clue Crew to get to the bottom of this cupcake...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It's a rollicking life, always thieving, always on the run -- until the ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots. It's all part of the bold new plan hatched by the Crowns' fearless leader, Gnat: one of their very own will...
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.
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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.
12) 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.
13) Pie
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket, an imprint of Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Exploding with loud, rock 'n' roll attitude, eleven-year-old Jack Fineman dreams of becoming the greatest pastry chef who ever lived. His plans are thrown off course when his butterscotch basil brownies are upstaged at his sixth-grade holiday party by a simple plate of chocolate rugelach brought in by Jillian Mermelstein-the new girl at school whose mother has just died and who only wants to be left alone. These budding bakers' lives are mixed together...
Author
Series
Love sugar magic volume 2
Publisher
WALDEN POND PR
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After learning her family's secret, Leo begins her magic training and awakes one night to find her dead grandmother standing in her room.
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