By order of the duke, Walter the baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times.

Twelve-year-old Rosemary Bliss must use her magical baking skills to escape when she is kidnapped by the owner of the Mostess Snack Cake Corporation.

Penny's mother has moved to Hog's Hollow, and opened a bakery that sells only cupcakes, and she has brought Penny with her. Penny is woebegone: all her friends and her dad are in New York City; she has to help her mother in the bakery; and Hog's Hollow's resident mean girl is making her life a misery.

Warned by an owl, ten-year-old Mattie discovers that someone is secretly polluting the land near her aunt's donut shop and sets out to stop them.

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.

"Busy toad workers make loaves of bread for hungry customers. Come take a tour of the Toad Loaves factory! This funny story engages beginning readers while supporting them with learning resources and bonus features. Decodable text features high-frequency words, words to help with short vowel/long vowel discrimination, and words with the long o sound spelled with the vowel team oa"--Back cover.

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.

"Macy's little sister has wings that are too small, so Eva's class decides to raise money to buy her a flying chair, and half the class opens a bakery, and the other half opens a candy store--but soon competition between the two stores becomes more important than their goal, and Eva needs to convince the other owls that they will collect more money if everyone works as a team"--Title verso page.

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.

If there's a crisis, Ruth bakes a cake; if there's a reason to celebrate, she bakes a cake. Ruth sees her cake-baking as an outward manifestation of an inner need to nurture her family-which is a good thing, because her family is rapidly expanding...