Katie Starting from Scratch [Paperback]

When Katie brings her maybe-someday stepsister to Cupcake Club, she gets her first taste of sibling rivalry—and it’s not very sweet!

Katie’s mom asks Katie for a huge favor: will she spend some time with Emily, her boyfriend’s daughter? Katie agrees and brings Emily to a Cupcake Club meeting. Things go well—almosttoowell. Everyone likes Emily so much, Katie wonders if her friends like Emily more than they like her! And if her mom marries Emily’s dad, will Emily become her favorite daughter? Katie is an only child, so all this sibling stuff is new to her. She’s starting from scratch!Katie Starting from Scratch

CHAPTER 1

Really, Mom?

So, Emily, what’s new with you? How are things going at school?” my mom asked the girl sitting next to me.

“It’s okay,” Emily replied. “I like all my teachers.”

Emily’s dad, who was sitting next to my mom, smiled at her.

I should probably remind you that Emily’s dad, Jeff, is also a math teacher at the middle school that I go to. There I call him “Mr. Green.” And Jeff, or Mr. Green or whatever you want to call him, happens to be dating my mom. It gets a little awkward sometimes to have your mom dating a teacher at school, but I’m dealing with it.

“Have you ever had trouble with the lock on your locker?” Mom asked Emily. Mom noddedtoward me. “Katie had a hard time getting the hang of it. Once she even called me at work because she couldn’t get it open.”

I looked at my mom in disbelief. “Really, Mom? Do you have to tell everybody that?”

Maybe normally I would have just laughed at a comment about that (especially since Mom was right), blÛ