Juvenile & Young Adult / Cooking & Food

The Cupcake Diaries: MIA in the Mix

by Coco Simon

At Park Street School, you have the Popular Girls. They even have a Popular Girls Club. But what happens when you aren’t invited to join? Do you start an Unpopular Club? No, you start a Cupcake Club!

This...

The Sweetest Thing

by Christina Mandelski

In the world of Sheridan Wells, life is perfect when she’s decorating a cake. Unfortunately, everything else is a complete mess: her mom ran off years ago, her dad is more interested in his restaurant, and...

The Cupcake Diaries: Katie and the Cupcake Cure

by Coco Simon

This first book in The Cupcake Diaries is told through the perspective of Katie Brown. We find Katie miserable on the first day of middle school. Her best friend Callie came back from camp boy-crazy and part...

Tina Cocolina: Queen of Cupcakes

by Pablo Cartaya, Martin Howard & Kirsten Richards

Fans of Fancy Nancy and Pinkalicious will adore Tina Cocolina, a sweet little cupcake of a girl with a sense of adventure and a flair for fashion who’s on the hunt for her perfect topping. This mouthwatering...

Alexis Cool as a Cupcake

by Coco Simon

The Cupcake Club learns that good leadership is a huge part of running a successful business—and friendship is the icing on the cake!

Alexis is the clear leader of the Cupcake Club: She’s organized, punctual,...

Emma All Stirred Up!

by Coco Simon

Emma needs a break from big-sister duty in this addition to Spotlight’s treat of a tween series.

Emma is not thrilled with always having to rearrange her schedule so she can babysit her younger brother, Jake....

The Cupcake Diaries: Mia's Baker's Dozen

by Coco Simon

Mia finds that one more in the mix is always better in this treat of a tween series!

Mia is getting used to her new family now that her mom is remarried to Eddie and she’s gained a new stepbrother, Dan. She’s...

The Cupcake Diaries: Katie, Batter Up!

by Coco Simon

A sporty addition to a sweet tween series that’s all about friendship—and cupcakes, of course!

Katie’s Cupcake Club friends all have other activities besides making cupcakes: Mia and Alexis are on the soccer...

Cold Case

by Julia Platt Leonard

When 13-year-old Oz Keillor finds a dead body in his family restaurant, he is soon caught up in a mystery where the stakes are high. His older brother is the prime suspect, and Oz quickly finds out that the...

Just Add Magic

by Cindy Callaghan

Take three friends. Add an old cookbook. Combine with cute boys and a pinch of magic…and see what kind of chaos ensues! When Kelly Quinn and her two BFFs discover a dusty old cookbook while cleaning out the...

Just Grace and the Trouble with Cupcakes

by Charise Mericle Harper

Count on Grace to cook up a creative compromise just in time to save the day in this tenth installment of the beloved Just Grace series. It's a cupcake-themed adventure, with plenty of fun sprinkled on top....

All Kinds Of Boats

by Valerie Beryl Grady

The Bear Chef Children's Books encourage young children to start cooking and to gain confidence in "food handling and understanding" with the support of an adult. They cover a range of early science concepts...

Scones and Sensibility

by Lindsay Eland

Seek tirelessly and you shall not find a contemporary heroine of middle-grade literature as refined and romantic as Miss Polly Madassa. Still swooning over the romantic conclusions of Pride & Prejudice and Anne...

The Hungry Ghost of Rue Orleans

by Mary Quattlebaum & Patricia Castelao

Who's afraid of Fred the ghost? Unfortunately, no one!

Fred the ghost is perfectly happy haunting his lonely old New Orleans house until Pierre and his daughter Marie move in and turn the house into . . . (horrors!)...

A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts

by Ying Chang Compestine & Coleman Polhemus

According to Chinese tradition, those who die hungry or unjustly come back to haunt the living. Some are appeased with food. But not all ghosts are successfully mollified. In this chilling collection of stories,Ying...

Eggs over Evie

by Alison Jackson & Tuesday Mourning

Twelve-year-old Evie Carson lives with her mom. In an apartment across the lake, Evie’s celebrity-chef dad is starting a new life with his young second wife, Angie, who’s expecting twins. To make matters...

The Espressologist

by Kristina Springer

What’s your drink of choice? Is it a small pumpkin spice latte? Then you’re lots of fun and a bit sassy. Or a medium americano? You prefer simplicity in life. Or perhaps it’s a small decaf soy sugar-free...

Neil Flambé and the Tokyo Treasure

by Kevin Sylvester

Something smells fishy—and it’s not the sushi—in this addition to the culinary mystery series celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey calls “good fun.”

World-class chef Neil Flambé isn’t thrilled when his cousin...

The Cupcake Diaries: Katie and the Cupcake War

by Coco Simon

Katie finds the courage to face off with a former friend in this addition to Spotlight’s sweet treat of a tween series.

Katie and Callie used to be best friends—until Callie ditched Katie so she could join...

No Room for Dessert

by Hallie Durand & Christine Davenier

What will Dessert bring to her classroom’s invention fair? Mischief, of course!

All of a sudden it seems like Dessert’s life story is being written in invisible ink! It’s getting harder and harder to believe...