A sporty addition to a sweet tween series that’s all about friendship—and cupcakes, of course! Katie’s Cupcake Club friends all have other activities besides making cupcakes: Mia and Alexis are on the soccer team and Emma plays the flute. Katie sets out to find her extracurricular niche and soon she’s dribbling, passing, and catching. Sure, Katie can whip up a great cupcake—but can she cook on the field too? When Katie tries out and makes the softball team it’s batter up….But instead of swinging away, she gets nervous during games. What if she makes a mistake? What if they lose? Is this the kind of batter Katie really wants to be dealing with? Katie starts to figure out that doing what you love always makes the batter sweeter.

Katie sets out to find her extracurricular niche, but she soon finds out that even though she can whip up a great cupcake, her nerves make cooking on the field difficult. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Chapter Books is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.

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Katie needs the help of her friends to cope with the changes of her mother getting a boyfriend and when she gets an e-mail from her dad saying that he wants to meet her.

Katie thinks things might get back to normal and then Callie announces that the Popular Girls Club is baking cupcakes for a fund-raiser at school.

The bestselling Cupcake Diaries series is now available in graphic novel format! In this adaptation of the fifth book, Katie tries out for the softball team. Katie’s Cupcake Club friends all have other activities besides making cupcakes. So Katie sets out to find her extracurricular niche. When Katie makes the softball team, it’s batter up…but is this the kind of batter Katie really wants to be dealing with? What if she makes a mistake and her team loses? By stepping up to the plate, Katie realizes that doing what you love always makes the batter sweeter. Fun, bright, full-color graphic panels tell the story with the same humor and heart as the original novel.

Four delectable Cupcake Club adventures are now available as one sweet treat of a book! Join Katie, Mia, Emma, and Alexis as they form the Cupcake Club—and fast friendships. This book includes volumes 5–8 in the Cupcake Diaries series: Katie, Batter Up!; Mia’s Baker’s Dozen; Emma All Stirred Up; and Alexis Cool as a Cupcake.