Katie Sprinkled Secrets

Cupcake Diaries #25

by Coco Simon

Katie has a tough time keeping one secret…what happens when she has to keep four? All of the cupcake girls have secrets and are ready to burst!

Katie loves knowing a secret; it's just tough for her to keep them! And in this story all her friends have told her a secret! From new crushes to someone cheating on a math test, Katie doesn’t know what to do with all of this juicy information!

Can the Cupcake Club survive with everyone keeping secrets from one another? The girls soon realize they need to confide in each other—after all what are best friends for if not for keeping your secrets?

Genres: Middle Grade, Childrens, Juvenile

160 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 2015

About the author

Coco Simon always dreamed of opening a cupcake bakery, but she’s afraid she would eat all the profits. When she’s not daydreaming about cupcakes, Coco edits children’s books and has written close to 100 books for children, tweens, and young adults, which is a lot less than the number of cupcakes she’s eaten. Cupcake Diaries is the first time Coco has mixed her love of cupcakes with writing.

Reviews

[Jocelin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The stories are still cute for the little cupcakers. I love reading this series because it is so easy to read. This one was about the secrets that each of the cupcakers have. Now, because this is a series geared towards 9-12 year olds the secrets are not salacious. They are still going with the cupcake business and life is throwing them some curveballs (single parents dating, secret crushes, blended families, fashion choices, etc). I like the way Ms. Simon has handled these problems in the series with light-heart sensitivity. She could have taken it to the saccharin level but, she didn't. She didn't take it to the depressing level either.
I did feel this story was a little slow, I do have a soft spot for Katie. Katie started off the series and I have enjoyed her storylines, because they have been consistent.

[kaleigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely not my favorite Cupcake book, but still very enjoyable.

[Pooja Banga · Rating 4 out of 5]

Katie has a tough time keeping one secret…what happens when she has to keep four? All of the cupcake girls have secrets and are ready to burst!

Katie loves knowing a secret; it's just tough for her to keep them! And in this story all her friends have told her a secret! From new crushes to someone cheating on a math test, Katie doesn’t know what to do with all of this juicy information!

[Christine Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

We've moved heavily into the liking boys phase of middle school. Still this was one of my favorite installments in a series that continues to delight me.

[Trinity · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really loved this book! Katie just started track team and her former best friend Callie says that she would be embarrassed to look gross in front of Katie's crush George. So Katie takes it personally and George keeps calling her Silly Legs but he doesn't really mean it does he? Then Katie's friend Natalie on the track team cheats on a math test and gets suspended! Alexis notices Mia isn't wearing her glasses when she's in class, Mia saw that Emma wrote Nicholas Argenti in her notebook and realizes that he's probably her crush, and when Alexis gets a 95 on a math test and only Natalie gets a 100 out of the whole class Katie doesn't tell her Natalie cheated. The Cupcake Club is full of secrets! Meanwhile Katie's mom's birthday is coming up and Katie always has her special day with her mom but her mom's new boyfriend Jeff throws a surprise party for her so all that is out the window and Katie is mad! Luckily Jeff apologizes and Katie and her mom still get to have their special day along with the surprise party. Then in the Cupcake Club once one secret is out all the other ones come out too. Katie has learned from her mom that it's better to share how you feel than keep it to yourself. I recommend this book for ages 7+. I probably won't reread this book cause lots of other books are waiting to be read on my TBR pile.

[Kaitlyn Zambrana]

Great!

[C.W · Rating 5 out of 5]

🥰❤️👍🧁📖 i love ❤️ cupcakes 🧁 too! They are really yummy 😋

[C · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like Katie's character development in this book

[Mailinh]

Katie wasn’t as annoying as in the previous books so that was cool!

[Atlas · Rating 4 out of 5]

très bonne lecture

[Aubrey Field · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a bingeable book. I liked it, but the characters were keeping a lot of secrets from each other, and the main character was making a lot of drama about different things. Those reasons made me not like it as much as I could have.

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Katie joins the track team. Everyone has secrets - good secrets like surprise parties, and bad secrets. This book seems a little more middle-grade grownup - shaving, deodorant, rumors, all that puberty and teen drama stuff.

[Alexandra]

"puberty sucks, but especially for girls", the novel. all the talk about shaving legs and deodorant and doing hair was the worst sort of throwback *shudders*
HOWEVER i really like how this series deals with (and always has dealt with) these sort of issues - which is, lightly and sparsely and in a no-nonsense sort of way.

[Kelsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

AMZING so heart touching