Katie, Batter Up! [Paperback]

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 team and Emma plays the flute. Katie sets out to find her extracurricular niche and soon she’s dribbling, passing, and catching in an effort to find the right sport for her. Sure Katie can whip up a great cupcake but can she cook on the field too? When Katie tries out and makes the softball team it’s batter up…but instead of swinging away she gets nervous during games. What if she makes a mistake? What if they lose? Is this the kind of batter Katie really wants to be dealing with? Katie starts to figure out that doing what you love always makes the batter sweeter.Coco Simonalways dreamed of opening a cupcake bakery but she’s afraid she would eat all the profits. She lovesallflavors of cupcakes, but if forced to choose a favorite, double chocolate fudge with white icing would be her #1 choice. When she’s not daydreaming about cupcakes, Coco edits children’s books and has written close to one hundred books for children, tweens, and young adults, which is a lot less than the number of cupcakes she’s eaten. Cupcake Diaries is the first time Coco has mixed her love of cupcakes with writing.Katie, batter up!

CHAPTER 1

My Cupcake Obsession

My name is Katie Brown, and I am crazy about cupcakes. I’m not kidding. I think about cupcakes every day. I even dream about them when I sleep. The other night I was dreaming that I was eating a giant cupcake, and when I woke up I was chewing on my pillow!

Okay, now Iamkidding. But I do dream about cupcakes, I swear. There musló,