Coco Simon's Cupcake Diaries series brings middle school cupcake fiction in The Cupcake Cure and Mia in the Mix
New middle grade book series Cupcake Diaries released its first two books by Coco Simon last week, Katie and the Cupcake Cure and Mia in the Mix, about a group of four friends who form a cupcake club. Both books are cute and focus on their friendship as well as cupcake baking, from coming up with flavors to the actual baking process to budgeting and figuring out how much each costs and catering to different palates. In Katie and the Cupcake Cure, Katie find that life changes in middle school, and her former best friend ditches her for the Popular Girls Club (yes, these girls really named their club that).
So she forms a new group of friends and they bond over their love of cupcakes and start baking them together and make them for a school fundraiser. Then in Mia in the Mix they get hired to make cupcakes for a few events and have to learn about running a business, including how to coordinate cupcakes, follow recipes and order cupcake toppers. They are sweet books and each one is from a different girl's point of view. Next in the series are Emma on Thin Icing and Alexis and the Perfect Recipe, out in August and December respectively. They're short, fun reads and you get to see a bit of each girl's personality and different family setups and how they bond over cupcakes and working together and sharing information and knowledge and opinions.
I'm definitely going to give these to my tween and even pre-tween cousins. There have been a bunch of middle grade novels with cupcakes as a plot point; I'll be posting about some others shortly too.
So she forms a new group of friends and they bond over their love of cupcakes and start baking them together and make them for a school fundraiser. Then in Mia in the Mix they get hired to make cupcakes for a few events and have to learn about running a business, including how to coordinate cupcakes, follow recipes and order cupcake toppers. They are sweet books and each one is from a different girl's point of view. Next in the series are Emma on Thin Icing and Alexis and the Perfect Recipe, out in August and December respectively. They're short, fun reads and you get to see a bit of each girl's personality and different family setups and how they bond over cupcakes and working together and sharing information and knowledge and opinions.
I'm definitely going to give these to my tween and even pre-tween cousins. There have been a bunch of middle grade novels with cupcakes as a plot point; I'll be posting about some others shortly too.
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