Mia S Baker S Dozen

Although Mia feels fairly satisfied with her life, she worries about who should attend parent-teacher night and her failing grade in Spanish.

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. 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.

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Mia learns to balance style and substance when she has to get glasses AND braces. Fashionista Mia gets some unflattering news from Katie’s mom, Dr. Brown: She needs braces. And just when Mia thinks things can’t get any worse...they do. Her teacher is concerned that Mia is squinting in class. A trip to the opthamologist confirms it: Mia needs glasses, too! Mia is miserable until her stylish mom comes to the rescue with a plan and a very chic middle school look. And her wonderful Cupcake Club friends reassure her that glasses and braces don’t get in the way of all they really see: the same old Mia.

When Mia arrives at her new school, she has to decide between the Popular Girls Club and the Cupcake Club; but the choice makes her feel like she's choosing between her divorced parents, and she wants to mix things up instead of being stuck in the middle. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Chapter Books is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.

Katie needs the help of her friends to cope with the changes of her mother getting a boyfriend and when she gets an e-mail from her dad saying that he wants to meet her.

Four delectable Cupcake Club adventures are now available as one sweet treat of a book! Join Katie, Mia, Emma, and Alexis as they form the Cupcake Club—and fast friendships. This book includes volumes 5–8 in the Cupcake Diaries series: Katie, Batter Up!; Mia’s Baker’s Dozen; Emma All Stirred Up; and Alexis Cool as a Cupcake.

When Emma is successful while modeling in an advertisement, she realizes it is a lot tougher than she thought.