It's Raining Cupcakes (It's Raining Cupcakes, #1)

by Lisa Schroeder

Paperback, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

J4D.Sch

Publication

Scholastic Inc.

Pages

193

Description

Twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of seeing the world but has never left Oregon, and so when her best friend, Sophie, tells her of a baking contest whose winners travel to New York City, she eagerly enters despite concerns about her mother, who is opening a cupcake bakery. Includes recipes.

Collection

Barcode

828

Original publication date

2010

Physical description

193 p.; 7.6 inches

ISBN

9780545235037

Lexile

640L

User reviews

LibraryThing member prkcs
Twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of seeing the world but has never left Oregon, and so when her best friend, Sophie, tells her of a baking contest whose winners travel to New York City, she eagerly enters despite concerns about her mother, who is opening a cupcake bakery. Includes recipes.
LibraryThing member skstiles612
I seem to be reading a lot of books about food lately. Last week I read an Amish fiction book that I will post a review of in about 3 weeks. It had wonderful recipes in it. For Cybils I've read a book about ice cream, pancakes, pies and now cupcakes. This book reminded me of one I read for Cybils
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last year, Angel Cke by Cathy Cassidy. In this book Isabel the main character would love to travel. Then she learns about a cupcake contest. She enters hoping to win a trip to New York. At the same time her mother is opening a bakery and going through her own problems. I enjoyed the book very much. My favorite part was the recipes. My husband and daughter have been working on getting a bakery started. Our house is always full of the smells of things baking so I added these recipes to his collection.
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LibraryThing member snowbank247
I really like baking cupcakes and when i found out there was a book about cupcakes, I was really excited! Especially that there were cupcake recipes in the back.
LibraryThing member jamiegogreen
Isabel has dreamed of getting out of the little town in Oregon that she lives in. But, her parents decide to open a little cupcake shop in the middle of town. Her parents shop is doing pretty well until a new Brownie shop opens a ways down the block that has people lined up to the street. But,
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Isabel learns about a cupcake contest where the winner gets to go to New York. Can Isabel think up a perfect recipe to win the contest? Find out in It's Raining Cupcakes!
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LibraryThing member librarian1204
A cupcake store and story. Very readable and girls will enjoy this book.
LibraryThing member MrsBookOwl
This was a really cute and sweet book that is perfect for the tween set. I really liked the main character Isabel. Many times in middle grade lit I'm distracted from the story but an overly unrealistic main character. I know kids that age, and sometimes the character doesn't ring true. This didn't
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happen with Isabel! She was nice, determined and smart. She never came across as judgmental or mean towards everyone around her - even when she could've easily been. I liked how friendly and accepting she was of people around her. How could I now like her? What a great role model for readers of this book.

What I also really liked about her was how she dealt with her mother. Isabel's mom tends to be a bit emotional, and Isabel knew help her. Instead of just throwing up her hands and giving up on her mom, Isabel does everything she can to get her where she needs to be. What's really cool is that by helping her mom Isabel learns a huge lesson about herself. A lesson she openly accepts and, by the end, grows from. And about the ending - I will say I was a bit surprised by it, in a good way, and I'm glad it ended that way.

Before I end I have to talk about the cupcakes. Each chapter title is a type of cupcake! By the end of the book I was soooooo hungry for cupcakes that I found myself hanging out in the bakery area a little too long!

Final thought: Sweet story that can teach us all a lesson about believing in ourselves. Definitely one I can recommend without worry.

Best stick-with-you image: Dr. Seuss Cupcakes!

Best for ages: 10-13 (or anyone who likes cupcakes!)
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LibraryThing member jackiewark
Isabel, 12, lives in the tiny, boring town of Willow, Oregon, where it rains frequently and doesn't see anything too exciting throughout the entire year. She dreams of traveling all around the world, but she hasn't been to one exotic place, foreign or domestic, even though everyone she knows has.
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Even her Aunt Christy is a flight attendant! Isabel and her friend, Sophie enter a kids only baking contest for a chance to win $1000 and a trip to New York! She's hoping to win to take her first trip out of Willow.

Her mom decides to open a cupcake bakery and voila!...It's Raining Cupcakes is born. Isabel and her mom have always loved to bake, but this is a little bit bigger and a lot more frightening for her skittish, unconfident mom. As the opening approaches, her mom wants to throw in the towel. WIth Isabel testing new recipes for the contest, her mom fretting over the grand opening, and her dad beside himself with getting the bakery ready to open for customers, the household is in a tizzy. Will it all turn out, even with another grand opening of a very popular brownie shop just a few blocks away? Isabel can only believe in herself and her recipes and hope that her dreams come true...for both herself and her mom.
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LibraryThing member ChloeB.G1
This book was about a girl named Isabel, her best friend Sophie and Isabel's family. Isabel's family moved to a new house so they could open their own cupcake business.The shop open's August fifteenth. Isabel's mom doesn't want to open the cupcake shop because there is a shop a few blocks from
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their shop called Beatrice's Brownies.Isabel started babysitting so she could get out of the state of Oregon. In the middle of the book Isabel's friend Sophie shows her a magazine with a baking contest in it. You'll have to read the 2 book to find out if Isabel or Sophie won. At the end of the book Isabel makes a list of what she learned while in New York City.

I liked this book because it tells what you can to with your family if you believe. I liked it so much that I will try and make some of the cupcake recipes that are in the back of the book. This has inspired me to create my own recipes because I just love to eat cupcakes. I didn't really like the ending but the rest of the book was good.The end of the book kind of surprised me because I thought they would tell if she won the baking contest. Right now I am reading the 2nd book in the series and it is really good. I hope that more people will read this book because it inspires people to do what they never thought they could do.
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LibraryThing member BookConcierge
12-year-old Isabel wants to travel. Yes, she wants to go to Paris and Australia, but anywhere outside of Willow, Oregon would be great! She journals about her dream daily and envies her best friend who goes away to summer camp and on vacations to the Grand Canyon. Now she has a chance – if she
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can come up with a winning recipe for a baking contest, she’ll get to go to New York. Meanwhile, Isabel helps her Mom and Dad as they prepare to open a new business – a cupcake shop!

This is a good middle-school book dealing with some bigger issues than cupcake recipes. Isabel struggles with her self-image and feelings of jealousy. Her mother struggles with depression, though this is never stated as such, and Isabel feels responsible for helping her mother feel better. I liked how Schroeder showed the family discussing issues and Isabel being sensitive to other people’s needs and feelings. Isabel and her family have to work hard to develop the plan for their cupcake store, and Isabel also has several “failures” before she comes up with the recipe she wants to enter into the contest. It’s a positive message about finding our strengths, working to develop them, and find solutions to problems that come our way.

What I didn’t like quite so much was the way Isabel’s mother’s depression was treated. I was bothered that Isabel took so much responsibility for helping her mother “feel better.” I realize this is a middle-grade book and not written for adults, but I didn’t like the message that Isabel could bring her mother out of her depression just by encouraging her to “not be afraid,” and giving her a few library books to read. No child should be responsible for curing such a serious illness.
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LibraryThing member Auntie-Nanuuq
Isabel is twelve years old and lives in Oregon with her parents. To make her mother (who has never been able to hold down a job) happy, the family buys an old laundromat and turns it into a cupcake shop....

In the midst of this Isabel enters a baking contest for kids 9-14 years old. Isabel's mother
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wants her to bake cupcakes, but after a neighbor comes back from England and brings Isabel a box of Jam tarts, Isabel decides to enter a recipe for Jam tarts....

Isabel's mother is manic depressive, and although a name for it is not given in the book...we see how Isabel copes with her mother and her mother's disease. Unlike Ceecee Honeycut's father (from the previous book I read), Isabel's father is there for the family and does his best to support his wife & Isabel.....

This book was light and easy to read, it also held my interest and wasn't too sad.
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Rating

½ (49 ratings; 3.8)

Awards

The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2011)

Call number

J4D.Sch
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