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Alana's Cupcake Garden

By Coco Simon
Series: Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch
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Alana's Cupcake Garden by Coco Simon is the fourth book in the Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch chapter book series, the little sister series to the bestselling Cupcake Diaries. This charming book includes black and white illustrations throughout and features an eye-catching glittery cover! Alana Wilson... Read More
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After starting at a new school, Alana struggles to balance new friendships and responsibilities, as she also tries to save her grandmother's beloved flower shop from closing.

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Alana's Cupcake Garden by Coco Simon is the fourth book in the Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch chapter book series, the little sister series to the bestselling Cupcake Diaries. This charming book includes black and white illustrations throughout and features an eye-catching glittery cover!

Alana Wilson loves being part of the Mini Cupcake Club and cherishes all her new friends at Fenton Street School. However, she misses her old friends from her previous school. Between her responsibilities in the club and helping her family with her two little brothers, she finds it difficult to make time to see them.

Things get even more challenging when she learns that her grandmother’s flower shop might have to close due to low sales. Her Grammy adores her shop, and it would be heart-breaking to see it shut down.

Can Alana find a way to bring her old and new friends together and save Grammy’s flower shop?

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781665963336

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 December 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Simon Spotlight

Illustration: f-c matte uv cvr w- spot glitter uv front & back; b-w int illus

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Manuela Lopez
  • Illustrated by Manuela LΓ³pez

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 194.0mm

Weight: 70g

Pages: 96

Collections

Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Coco Simon Series: Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch Young Adult

About the Author

From cupcakes to ice cream and donuts! When she’s not daydreaming about yummy snacks, CocoΒ SimonΒ edits children’s books and has written close to one hundred books for children, tweens, and young adults, which is a lot less than the number of cupcakes, ice cream cones, and donuts she’s eaten. She is the author of the Cupcake Diaries, the Sprinkle Sundays,Β andΒ the Donut Dreams series.Β Her newest series is Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch.Β 

Manuela LΓ³pez is an artist, introvert, and tea drinker. She works as an illustrator of children’s books and freelance projects.

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