Hugs and Sprinkles

By Sheryl Berk and Carrie Berk

PLC is about to find out that secrets and crushes are a recipe for disaster…

The fifth graders at Blakely Elementary are having their very first dance! The girls of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes are all thrilled…except for Kylie, who confides in Lexi that she wishes she had a special someone to go with. Before long, notes and gift show up in Kylie's locker from a "secret admirer" who seems to know her perfectly!

Kylie is over the moon—until the discovery of her admirer's identity leads to two feuding friends! Can PLC pull it together in time for the festivities?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: Apr 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781492637462

Sheryl Berk

New York Times bestselling author Sheryl Berk has collaborated with numerous celebrities on their memoirs and lifestyle books. She is the founding editor in chief of Life & Style Weekly as well as a contributor to InStyle, Martha Stewart, and other publications.

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Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

1. Shall We Dance?

2. Cupcake Calculations

3. Guess Who

4. I Spy

5. Friendly Feud

6. Robot Romance

7. BFF Reboot

8. Battle of the Bots

9. Clean Up Your Act

10. The Icing on the Dress

11. Eye Like You

12. Boys Can Bake

Cotton Candy Cupcakes

Strawberry Cupcakes with Goat Cheese Frosting

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

Carrie’s Cupcake Crafts: Cupcake Liner Corsages

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

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So what do you think? Lexi Poole asked, holding up a page in a department store catalog. On it was a photo of a girl wearing a big, pale-blue, billowy ball gown—complete with a rhinestone tiara. It was supposed to be a weekly meeting of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes, but she couldn’t help asking her friends and fellow club members for their opinion. The Blakely Elementary School spring dance was just four weeks away, and since her lifelong crush, Jeremy Saperstone, had already asked her to go with him, she had to start planning.

"I think this is the one. The dress," she said.

I think it’s a little royal for a fifth-grade dance, don’t you? Jenna Medina replied, rolling her eyes. And poofy. Really, really poofy. Is that a train in the back?

Delaney Noonan giggled. You’ll look like a giant cupcake.

Lexi raised an eyebrow. And what’s wrong with that?

Sadie Harris nodded her head. Maybe it’s just a little over the top, Lex? And definitely too frilly for my taste.

Lexi groaned. That’s because you’ll probably go to the dance in your basketball uniform!

Nuh-uh! Sadie insisted. I already went with my mom to the mall, and I have a really pretty turquoise romper to wear. Lucas, the captain of the boys’ basketball team, asked me to go with him—and he’s wearing a varsity sweater to match.

"Mi madre is making my dress, Jenna chimed in. Hot-pink chiffon with pearls around the waist."

Jack Yu said he asked you, Sadie gossiped. And that you promised him a dozen mint–chocolate chip cupcakes.

He brings the corsage; I’ll bring the cupcakes, Jenna said. Besides, he’s really cute.

It’s so not fair that Blakely has a fifth-grade dance and my school doesn’t, Delaney complained. Weber Day has a trip to a dude ranch instead. I don’t get to wear a pretty dress, and I’m gonna smell like horse for days!

What are you wearing to the dance? Lexi asked Kylie Carson. Their club president had been very quiet during the whole dress discussion. Lexi noticed that Kylie wasn’t smiling or teasing her like the other girls. She kept her head buried in her business binder.

I’m, I’m… Kylie hesitated. I’m not going.

What? Lexi gasped. Why not?

Kylie held up a stack of papers. We have so many orders to fill before then, she explained. We’re up to our eyeballs in cupcakes, and someone has to handle it all.

And don’t forget this order. Jenna read aloud from an email. "Principal Fontina wants twenty dozen cupcakes for the dance—‘baked, decorated, and delivered promptly.’