Holiday Baking: It’s Raining Cupcakes by Lisa Schroeder

All this week, we’re featuring Lisa Schroeder’s It’s Raining Cupcakes book series for middle grade readers — to tie in with all that holiday baking you’re likely to be doing this month. (Or if you’re not baking, you’ll at least be sampling some baked goods, right?)

Today, we turn the spotlight onto the first book in the series, It’s Raining Cupcakes:

Twelve-year-old Isabel is dying to get out of her small town of Willow, Oregon, and travel like her best friend, Sophie. But when Isabel’s mother decides to open up a cupcake shop across town, Isabel is once again stuck in Willow for the summer…until she learns of a baking contest where the finalists get an all-expenses paid trip to New York City to compete in the final bake-off. But Sophie is also entering the contest, and Isabel’s mother has reservations. Can Isabel finally realize her dreams of leaving Willow without hurting two of the most important people in her life?

And don’t miss this interview our former middle grade contributor Elena (an ACTUAL middle grader) conducted with Lisa … inside a local cupcake shop!