Save the Cupcake!
Author: Lisa Papademetriou
Book 1 in the Confectionately Yours series
Pages: 192
Published: 2012
Age: 8+
Hayley's world is far from perfect: her parents have divorced, her mother has lost her job, and she and her sister Chloe are stuck sharing a bedroom in their grandmother's apartment. Luckily, Hayley has a knack for baking cupcakes – and cupcakes always make life just a little sweeter! But when she and her best friend Artie start drifting apart, she realises that it's going to take more than sugar and spice to make things nice.
About the Confectionately Yours Series
Books in series order
- 1.Save the Cupcake!(2012)
- 2.Taking the Cake!(2012)
- 3.Sugar and Spice(2013)
- 4.Something New(2013)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
Confession: Hayley's life is soooo not sprinkles and sunshine...
Everything in her life is changing: school, parents, friends – she and her family even had to move into her grandmother's cramped apartment. On top of all that, Hayley has to figure out how to navigate the confusing world of boys, kisses, and crushes!
Luckily, she has a talent for baking and when life isn't so sweet, her cupcakes always are.

