The seventh book in a delicious series by New York Times bestselling author Sheryl Berk and her cupcake-obsessed daughter, Carrie. There's a new advisor for PLC...a GUY! But there's no time for adjusting―the Cupcake Club needs to whip up 2,000 mini cupcakes pronto. The same can't be said for Meredith, whose favorite hobby is picking on Lexi. So when the PLC gets a cupcake order from the New England Shooting Starz―the beauty pageant Meredith is competing in―the girls have a genius idea; enter Lexi into the competition so she can show Meredith once and for all that she's no better than anyone else. Problem is, PLC has to make Lexi a pageant queen―and 1,000 cupcakes―all in a matter of weeks! Have the girls of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes bitten off more than they can chew? New York Times bestselling co-author of Soul Surfer, SHERYL BERK is the founding editor in chief of Life & Style Weekly as well as a contributor to InStyle, Martha Stewart, and other publications. Her daughter, CARRIE, a cupcake connoisseur, cooked up the idea for the Cupcake Club series in second grade. Together, they have invented dozens of crazy cupcake recipes in their NYC kitchen (can you say Purple Velvet?) and have the frosting stains on the ceiling to prove it. Carrie maintains her own cupcake blog, featuring reviews, photos and recipes of her culinary adventures. New York Times bestselling co-author of Soul Surfer, SHERYL BERK is the founding editor in chief of Life & Style Weekly as well as a contributor to InStyle, Martha Stewart, and other publications. Her ten-year-old daughter, CARRIE, a cupcake connoisseur, cooked up the idea for the PLC series in second grade. Together, they have invented dozens of crazy cupcake recipes in their NYC kitchen (can you say Purple Velvet?) and have the frosting stains on the ceiling to prove it. Carrie maintains her own cupcake blog, featuring reviews, photos and recipes of her culinary adventures. With Meredith Mitchell, Blakely Elementary School's resident mean girl, all it took was one little incident to become her instant enemy. Kylie Carson learned this the hard way in third grade when she accidentally kicked a sneaker in Meredith's face during an audition for the hip-hop club. Ever since that black eye, Meredith held a grudge against Kylie and all the other members of her cupcake club: Sadie, Jenna, Lexi, and Delaney. Somehow, they'd managed to keep the peace through most of fourth, and now fifth, grade. Meredith was annoying, stuck-up, and opinionated, but she paid little attention to them and instead surrounded herself with a posse of worshipping minions―a.k.a. Abby, Emily, and Bella. But this morning, Lexi was innocently carrying her huge art project down the hallway... "Excuse me. Pardon me," Lexi said as she tried to navigate her way to first-period art class with a canvas that was bigger than she was. On it, she'd painted a colorful carnival scene: a merry-go-round, a Ferris wheel, and a group of girls (looking a lot like her fellow members of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes) eating cotton candy. It had taken her nearly a week to complete, and she was proud of her work. But now, as she slammed into walls, lockers, and assorted students, she thought maybe she'd gone a little overboard. "Watch where you're going with that thing!" Jack Yu snapped as Lexi accidentally whacked him in the head with her canvas. "I'm so sorry!" she apologized. "It's hard to see where I'm going." "Ouch!" complained Emily Dutter. "You klutz! You stepped on my foot." "Sorry!" Lexi called after her. "I didn't mean to." The hall was packed with fifth graders cramming their coats and book bags into their lockers. Lexi tried her best to squeeze past them without doing too much damage. "Heads up! Art project coming through!" she warned. She never saw Meredith applying her pink lipstick by her locker mirror, and the painting collided with the diva's elbow. "Nooooo!" Meredith shrieked in horror. There was a hot-pink smudge across her mouth and cheek. "Who did this? Who would dare?" She saw the huge canvas only inches away from her locker―but couldn't see who was hiding behind it. "I said, Who is responsible for this?" she bellowed. Lexi peered around the edge of the painting. "Um, I guess I am?" Meredith's eyes narrowed. "You! You did this!" "I'm really, really sorry," Lexi began, but Meredith cut her off. "Oh, you will be!" Lexi rested her painting against the wall and dug in her backpack. "Wait, I think I have some tissues in here." She took one out and began dabbing at Meredith's cheek, spreading the color on her nose and chin. Now her whole face looked pink and blotchy. "Get off me!" Meredith screamed. "You're making it worse!" She snatched the tissue out of Lexi's hand as a crowd gathered around them. "OMG!" Emily cried. "Meredith, your face is a mess!" "I dunno." Jack chuckled. "I think it's an improvement." Lexi braced herself and waited for Meredith to throw a royal temper tantrum. She wished she could duck behind