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Emma All Stirred Up!

Coco Simon, Elizabeth Doyle Carey · 133 pages

This book is about emma who goes to camp then she starts to have her own problems . She has problems with her old friend and new friends from camp . Can she solve these problems .

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Cake Pop Crush

Suzanne Nelson · 247 pages

"Alicia Ramirez has always loved baking. Her family owns Say It With Flour, the small bakery in town. And Ali's specialties are cake pops: delicious confections on a stick. But Ali's sweet life turns sour when a sleek coffee shop opens across the street, giving her bakery a run for its money. Worst of all, the owner's son, Dane McGuire, likes to bake, too. He's the new kid in Ali's school ... and

Chef or BakerMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Grace

Mary Casanova · 195 pages

Meet Grace Thomas. Grace has big summer plans- starting a business with friends! When Mom announces a trip to Paris, Grace gets on board, but her trip isn't all she hoped it would be. She and her French cousin aren't hitting it off, and Grace's friends back home have started a business *without* her. Can Grace step out of her comfort zone, try a few new things, and come up with a succ

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Something New

Lisa Papademetriou · 218 pages

Hayley's life hasn't exactly been a piece of cake, and now there's even more change in store: an adorable new puppy, a possible new school, and a new baking challenge--a wedding cake for her grandmother's big day!

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The Year the Swallows Came Early

Kathryn Fitzmaurice · 304 pages

Eleanor "Groovy" Robinson loves cooking and plans to go to culinary school just as soon as she's old enough. But even Groovy's thoughtfully—planned menus won't fix the things that start to go wrong the year she turns eleven—suddenly, her father is in jail, her best friend's long-absent mother reappears, and the swallows that make their annual migration to her hometown arrive surprisingly early. As

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Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

Sharon Creech · 141 pages

Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today.Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don't always get along, that's true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories

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Everything on a Waffle

Polly Horvath · 166 pages

Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.

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All Four Stars

Tara Dairman · 273 pages

Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby loves food and cooking, so when she lands an assignment to write a restaurant review for a New York City newspaper, she will do anything to make it happen, even risk the wrath of her fast-food loving parents.

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Pie

Sarah Weeks · 183 pages

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.

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Midsummer's Mayhem

Rajani LaRocca · 351 pages

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Close to Famous

Joan Bauer · 250 pages

Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.

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A Tangle of Knots

Lisa Graff

"Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.

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Kitchen Princess, Vol. 01

Miyuki Kobayashi · 208 pages

Najika is a gifted cook and attends the prestigious Seika Academy cooking school. Her friendship with two brothers, Sora and Daichi, creates resentment with other girls at the school. Her greatest rival is a popular, teen model, Akane who tries to drive Najika from the school by staging a cooking contest.

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Pies & Prejudice

Heather Vogel Frederick

Four girls, and their mothers, continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference between Massachusetts and England, reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and try to put friendship before romance.

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The Dancing Pancake

Eileen Spinelli · 248 pages

DELICIOUS PANCAKES!!FREE!!ALL YOU CAN EAT!!COME TO OURNEW GRAND OPENING!The grand opening of the Dancing Pancake isn't the only new thing in Bindi's life: new friends, a new apartment, maybe even a cute new crush? But there are other changes, like her dad's move to a new city, that have left Bindi confused and wondering: What will happen to my family? Will this new life ever feel normal? Among the

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The Candymakers

Wendy Mass · 466 pages

When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl · 161 pages

Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-t

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Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles

Rupert Kingfisher

An exquisite fairy tale with shades of Angela Carter that will intrigue both adults and children alike Madame Pamplemousse is the story of Madeleine, forced to work in her unpleasant uncle's horrible restaurant, The Squealing Pig. By chance she comes across the most marvellous shop, run by Madame Pamplemousse, which is quiet, discreet, yet full of delicious and otherworldly 'edibles' – Pterodactyl

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The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart

Stephanie Burgis · 256 pages

Aventurine is *not* the kind of dragon who can sit inside her family mountain for decades. If she’s cooped up for even one more hour, she might explode! Her family claims she’s too young to leave safely, but she’s fierce and she’s brave, and she’s ready to prove it by capturing the most dangerous prey of all: a human. Unfortunately, the human she captures turns out to be even sneakier than she

Chef or BakerMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen

Cynthia Rylant · 53 pages

While staying with their aunt for a year, three nine-year-old cousins keep busy baking and selling cookies, putting on a poetry and singing performance, and trying to encourage a romance between their aunt and one of their former customers.

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Peace, Love, and Cupcakes

Sheryl Berk, Carrie Berk

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Stef Soto, Taco Queen

Jennifer Torres · 166 pages

"Mexican-American Stef Soto is hoping to break free from her overprotective parents and embarrassing reputation from her family's taco truck business, but she soon learns that family, friendship, and the taco truck are important and wonderful parts of her life"--

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