Alexis Cool as a Cupcake [Paperback]

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, and happy to take on the stuff like scheduling, budgets, invoicing, and the things that the other girls don’t really want to do. In other words, the “unfun” things. But one day Alexis feels particularly unappreciated and informs the Cupcake Club that she is no longer in charge! After deadlines get missed and supplies aren’t bought, the girls realize they definitelyneeda leader….And Alexis realizes being the leader is kind of cool; as long as you know how to ask for help when you need it!Alexis Cool as a Cupcake

CHAPTER 1

Partners? What Partners?

Business first. That’s one of my mottoes.

When my best friends and I get together to discuss our cupcake company, the Cupcake Club, I am all about business. My name is Alexis Becker, and I am the business planner of the group. This means I kind of take care of everything—pricing, scheduling, and ingredient inventory—the nuts and bolts of it all. So when we actually go to make the cupcakes and sell them, we’re all set.

Mia Vélaz-Cruz is our fashion-forward, stylish person, who is great at presentation and coming up with really good ideas, and Katie Brown and Emma Taylor are real bakers, so they have lots of ideas on ingredients and how things should taste. Together we make a great team.

But today, when we were having our weekly meeting at Mia’s house, they would not let me do my job. It was so frustrating!

I had out the leather-bounlÛ