Can the new Fashion Club be the icing on the cupcake for Mia, or is she in over her headshot? When fashionista Mia hears someone is starting a Fashion Club at school, how can she resist? But can she manage to take part in two clubs at the same time? And what will her Cupcake Club friends think about this? Worst of all, Mia’s frenemy Olivia Allen wants to be in charge of the Fashion Club. Can Mia and Olivia make peace long enough to survive a fashion show? From cupcakes to ice cream and donuts! When she’s not daydreaming about yummy snacks, Coco Simon 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, ice cream cones, and donuts she’s eaten. She is the author of the Cupcake Diaries, Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch, the Sprinkle Sundays, and the Donut Dreams series. Her newest series is Mia in the Middle. Mia Fashion Plates And Cupcakes CHAPTER 1 We Are Such Pros! Do you need help with those, Katie?” I asked. My friend Katie was carrying two cupcake carriers stacked on top of each other, and a bag of supplies dangled from her wrist. It made me a little nervous watching her. Katie is my BFF here in Maple Grove and I love her, but she’s had some serious cupcake disasters before. “No, I got it,” Katie assured me. She carefully placed the carriers on our cupcake sales table and then looked around. “Wow, there’s some cool stuff here.” We were inside the Maple Grove Women’s Club, which may not sound superexciting, except that it was the day of their craft fair. Local artists and craftspeople were setting up tables with the stuff they’d made, like knitted scarves and handmade beaded jewelry. “Yeah, I hope we can look around a little,” I said. “Alexis was really smart to suggest we set up here.” At that moment our friend Alexis walked up to us, carrying a notebook and a cash box. “Did I just hear you say I was really smart?” she asked with a grin. I nodded. “I never would have thought to sell cupcakes at a craft fair, but it’s kind of a genius idea.” “Not genius, just obvious,” Alexis said. “People who go to craft fairs get hungry. Besides, our cupcakes are handmade too, and they’re like little works of art. I think the decorations and flavors you guys came up with are genius.” “Thanks,” I said. I was pretty proud of what we had done. “We should get things set up before it starts.” My mom is a member of the Women’s Club, so I had arrived early with her and started to set up the table. Once Alexis had suggested we sell at the craft fair, we came up with a theme: “Crafty Cupcakes.” Whenever we do an event, we have to plan out a bunch of things: what flavor to make the cupcakes; how to decorate the cupcakes; how to display the cupcakes; and how to decorate the table. For the craft fair, I thought we should stick with what people think of as traditional “cupcakey” colors—pink, mint green, light blue, and yellow. So the first thing I did was put down a pink tablecloth. We had used it for a baby shower once, and we like to reuse things to help with the costs. Then I set up a backdrop, which I made from one of those big trifold cardboard displays that you can get for school projects. For the middle panel, I cut out letters from scrapbook paper to spell out “Crafty Cupcakes.” The papers had little white flowers and dots on them, so it looked really cute. Then I had drawn some pictures of cupcakes along with pictures of crafty things, like paintbrushes and yarn and knitting needles. On each side panel, I had printed out our Cupcake Club logo: a cupcake in a light blue wrapper with pink icing and a red cherry on top, and the words “cupcake” above it and “club” below. I had designed the logo myself at summer camp. We made T-shirts with the logo too, which we wore whenever we had a Cupcake event. Anyway, I stood up the backdrop at the back of the table, and then I was ready for the cupcake displays. It’s tempting to buy cool new stuff for our displays each time, but then we wouldn’t make as much profit. And Alexis is always talking about profit, since that’s the money we get to keep. So we usually reuse what we can or make what we need. For this display, however, I bought some wooden cake stands from the craft store and painted them in our cupcakey colors. Then I added a clear, shiny coat so that it would be safe to put food on the stands. They looked really pretty on the table. They were on sale, and they were something we could use over and over again, so they were worth buying. “I’ll get the rest of the cupcakes from the car,” Katie said, hurrying off. “Mind if I set up the cash box?” Alexis asked. “That’s fine. I’ve got this,” I said. I slipped on some thin plastic gloves and opened up the first carrier. It contained our first batch of cupcakes: vanilla cake with vanilla icing, decorated with flowers made of fondant. Fondant is this paste made of sugar that you can roll out like dou