Katie and the Cupcake War [Paperback]

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

Katie and Callie used to be best friends—until Callie ditched Katie so she could join the Popular Girls Club. And even though Katie is now very happy with her Cupcake Club friends, Callie’s mean move still bothers her. Finally, Katie finds a way to confront Callie…but it’s going to take lots of sweet-talking to repair the friendship.Katie and the Cupcake War

CHAPTER 1

You Are Not Going to Believe This!

Mia! Is it really you? I haven’t seen you in a gazillion years!” I cried, hugging my friend.

Mia laughed. “Katie, I was only gone for, like, four days,” she said.

“That is four days, ninety-six hours, or five thousand, seven hundred, and sixty minutes,” I said. Then I dramatically put my hand over my heart. “I know, because I counted them all.”

“I missed you too,” Mia said. “But you couldn’t have missed me too much. You were trying out new recipes with the techniques you learned at cooking camp, weren’t you?”

“Yes,” I told her, “but it felt like you were gone forever. I almost didn’t recognize you!”

Actually, I was kidding. Mia looked pretty muchthe same, with her straight black hair and dark eyes. She might have gotten a little bit tanner from her long weekend at the beach. She was wearing white shorts and a white tank top with a picture of a pink cupcake on it.

“Hey, I just noticed your shirt!” I said. “That’s so coolló,