Katie's New Recipe (Cupcake Diaries)
Change isn’t Katie’s strong suit. Going along with her friends’ vote to use guava jelly rather than grape in the PB&J cupcakes seems like a big step. It’s nothing, though, compared with the changes looming when her devoted single mother starts dating and her long-absent father attempts to contact her. Following the rotating narrator concept of the popular Cupcake Diaries series, the thirteenth book is told from Katie’s point of view. Her true-to-life insecurities and fears are apparent in her very readable narration, and so is the support she can count on from her mother and her friends. Sure to please the series’ fans. Grades 4-6. --Carolyn Phelan