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by Coco Simon


  When everything was loaded up, Mom locked the front door and handed Dad the key. We all stood there on the porch for a minute, looking up at the house. Home. I started to cry, and so did Mom. I buried my head in Dad’s chest, and I could tell he was crying too. Only Tanner, who was sitting on the step playing a game on Dad’s phone, seemed unmoved. “Tanner!” I yelled. “Say good-bye to your house!”

  Tanner looked up, confused. “Uh, bye, house,” he said, and we all laughed.

  “Okay, troops,” Mom said. “Onward.” Tanner and I got into Mom’s car, and we pulled out of the driveway. I looked back down our street as long as I could, saying good-bye to everything as it was.

  We turned onto the main road, and Mom took a deep breath. “Okay, gang,” she said. “On to our next adventure! Here we go.”

  “To where?” Tanner asked.

  “To our new house,” Mom said, turning around to look at Tanner. “And to better things ahead.”

  “Oh,” said Tanner. “I thought maybe we were going someplace fun.” Mom looked at Tanner like he had ten heads. Then she looked at me, and we both cracked up. Some things, it seemed, weren’t going to change at all.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Coco Simon always dreamed of opening a cupcake bakery but was afraid she would eat all of the profits. When she’s not daydreaming about cupcakes, Coco 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 she’s eaten. Cupcake Diaries is the first time Coco has mixed her love of cupcakes with writing.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Simon Spotlight hardcover edition May 2018

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  Text by Elizabeth Doyle Carey

  Design and chapter header illustrations by Laura Roode

  Jacket design by Laura Roode

  Jacket illustrated by Abigail Halpin

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  ISBN 978-1-5344-1735-9 (pbk)

  ISBN 978-1-5344-1736-6 (hc)

  ISBN 978-1-5344-1737-3 (eBook)

  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2018936049

 

 

 


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