Play the part of a turnip in the school play? Disaster! Then Kylie comes up with a delicious idea: What if she starts a cupcake club?Soon Kylie's club is spinning out tasty treats with the help of her fellow bakers and new friends. How will she make friends at her new school? Should she tell her classmates she loves monster movies? Forget it. This is The Babysitter's Club for a generation raised on Cake Boss and Ace of Cakes and is slated to be a sweet success!Meet Kylie Carson.She's a fourth grader with a big problem.

So I felt like I was taking fourth-grade writing.A delightful, delicious middle grade debut by New York Times bestselling author Sheryl Berk and her cupcake-obsessed daughter, Carrie.Cupcake Club is the first book in the Peace, Love and Cupcakes series. 'She's mirroring their constructive criticism that they've done on her writing. 'And she'd say, 'This is what my teachers would ask if I wrote a story and it was missing this,' ' Berk adds. 'And 'What is the character thinking and feeling here?' And 'Why are you racing? Where's your pacing?' I would say, 'Oh my gosh, you're mean!' 'I'd hand her a chapter and she'd come back and it's all marked up with red,' Berk says. 'She takes her life experiences and can write amazing realistic fiction that any child her age can relate to,' Fein says.Ĭarrie used what she learned in the classroom to edit her mom. Fein calls Carrie's writing reflective and thoughtful. 'To actually have a student have a piece of work published is just amazing,' Levenherz says. And Michelle Fein is worked in as PTA president Miss Fine. Jackie Levenherz appears as Kylie's third-grade teacher, Ms. And as a little kindergarten student she heard about it, and with one friend made T-shirts and did a lemonade stand on the street and raised over $200.'Ĭarrie's fourth-grade teachers also get a nod in the book.

'We've been fund-raising for our greenhouse up on the roof. 'Carrie is a very special, unique child,' Fontana says. 6 also has an eco center, which Carrie helped fund. In the book, the cupcake club bakes treats to raise money for their school's eco center. And that's where the whole idea of a bullying situation came about.' They teach kids how to get along and resolve their differences. 'Like this year, she's been a peer mediator. 'But a lot of the situations have come out of Carrie's experiences here,' Berk adds. And none of the girls are the actual characters. 'There's a little bit of her in each of the characters. 'Carrie is not one of the characters,' Berk says of her daughter. 'Kylie's thinking about her joining the cupcake club and all her friends are screaming, 'Noooo,' because they don't want to add any other members,' Carrie explains.ĭelaney's character is a lot like her in that she knows almost every Katy Perry song. And Carrie's classmate Delaney Hannon will appear as Kylie's sleepaway camp friend in book two in the series. One of the bully's sidekicks is named for another P.S.

Peace, Love and Cupcakes by Sheryl Berk