Mia Fashion Plates and Cupcakes (Cupcake Diaries)
After Mia joins the new fashion club at school, she finds that she has little time left for her other commitments, including the Cupcake Club. In addition, her mother and stepfather’s recent bickering worries her. As her new club’s fashion show lurches toward near-certain disaster, Mia’s old friends and her family offer support when she needs it most. Many readers will relate to Mia’s emotional concerns, both at home and at school, as she tries to defuse tense situations that are beyond her control. Tension rises and diminishes realistically throughout this appealing first-person narrative, the eighteenth volume in the Cupcake Diaries series. Grades 4-6. --Carolyn Phelan