It's Raining Cupcakes

Twelve-year-old isabel is dying to get out of Oregon. She spends her free time in the library, reading and dreaming about faraway places. When her mom decides to open a cupcake shop in their little town of Willow, Isabel feels just like buttercream frosting to a cupcake?stuck.It seems as if it will be another disappointing summer, until Isabel learns of a baking contest. If she can come up with a winning recipe, she might have a chance of competing in the bake-off in New York City!But Isabel?s best friend, Sophie, is also entering the contest?and things always seem to go Sophie?s way. To make matters worse, Isabel and her mom don?t exactly see eyetoeye on the type of recipe Isabel should enter.In this sweet treat by popular teen author Lisa Schroeder, Isabel discovers that maybe it?s not about where you go in life as much as it is about enjoying the view from wherever you are.

Lisa Schroeder is the author of the teen verse novels The Day Before; I Heart You, You Haunt Me and its companion novel, Chasing Brooklyn; Far from You; and the teen prose novel Falling for You. She is also the author of the middle grade prose novels It’s Raining Cupcakes, Sprinkles and Secrets, and Frosting and Friendship. She lives in Beaverton, Oregon. Find out more about Lisa and her books at LisaSchroederBooks.com or on Twitter at @Lisa_Schroeder.