Ella the elephant wants to help in her mother's bakery, but will the job she takes on prove to be more than she can handle?

Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.

High school senior Elle Conner's only escape from her cold mother and annoying twin sisters is her work at Hap-PIE-ly Ever After pie shop until an accident introduces her to Finn.

Twelve-year-old Maggie and her younger sister, Grace, have been living with their grandmother since their parents died in a car crash, and Maggie has been taking out her anger on Grace and acting out in their new school--but when Daisy of Daisy's Desserts starts teaching her to bake, she starts to rediscover her better nature.

Twelve-year-old Kiki Booker is a science whiz and she is looking forward to the contest that is run by the Future of Tech and Science, a local television show; but at the moment she is also concerned about saving her local bakery, Daisy's Desserts, which may be driven out of business by a big superstore--and she has a personal dilemma because her father is handling the publicity for Bakery Barn.