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Buch 8 von 8: Donut Dreams

Simon, Coco

 
9781665900799: Donut Delivery! (Volume 8) (Donut Dreams)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1665900792 ISBN 13: 9781665900799
Verlag: Simon Spotlight, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Casey finds inspiration in unexpected places in this eighth delicious book in the Donut Dreams series from the author of the Cupcake Diaries and Sprinkle Sundays series!

Casey is planning lots of fun things to do over spring break with her BFF Lindsay. But her parents ruin her plans when they tell her she has to join them on a family trip to look at colleges with her older sister, Gabby. Casey is devastated until things take a surprising turn for the better when she runs into her summer crush, Matt! Matt is not only as smart and cute as Casey remembered, but he gives her an idea to make Donut Dreams donuts even more famous!

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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.

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Chapter One: Freedom Week!

Chapter One Freedom Week!
It was almost spring break at Bellgrove Middle School.

The flowers were starting to bloom, the birds were showing off their springtime symphonies, and the whole town was smiling and enjoying spending time outdoors again.

This was when long pants started to fade away, sweaters went on vacay, and school hallways were suddenly sprinkled with tank tops, skirts, and shorts.

Normally these early days of spring would be my favorite time of year, but this year I was feeling a little annoyed by the change in weather.

I think it had to do with the fact that I was in middle school now.

Was it wrong for me to want to feel a little more grown-up in my clothes, and in my overall appearance?

And springtime at Bellgrove Middle School was also when it became abundantly clear to everyone who was allowed to shave their legs, and who wasn’t.

Can you guess which side of that fence I was stuck on?

My mom is the assistant principal of my school, and let’s just say that despite her stylish and modern clothes, she has some unfair ideas on stuff.

How she got the idea that her daughters shouldn’t start shaving their legs until they’re in high school is so unfair!

When I asked her why I had to wait until I was in high school, what she told me was pretty simple.

My mom’s mom, Grandma Rita, didn’t let her daughters shave their legs until they were in high school.

That’s it. That’s the only reason.

Leave it to my mom to carry on tradition, I guess….

As for my dad, he’s pretty protective of me and my older sister and isn’t exactly enthused about us looking too grown-up in any way, so he definitely had Mom’s back on this one, like always.

“Mom, who cares if I have hair on my legs or not?” I tried to reason with her once.

Mom looked at me and smiled, like a cat who had just caught its evening meal.

“Exactly my point,” she said. “So why go through all the trouble if no one cares? Who are you trying to impress anyway, Casey?”

“No one!” I said.

But that wasn’t 100 percent true, was it?

Mom got me thinking. I’d had hair on my legs for some time now. Why did I want to shave all of a sudden?

Was it because the other girls my age were doing it? Or did I want to shave my legs for another reason?

My older sister, Gabby, who’s now in her first year of community college, went through the same thing with this rule all through middle school.

By the time she got to high school, she was one of the last girls in her class with unshaved legs.

Lucky for her, Gabby refused to wait.

I love how Gabby tells the story about the morning she gracefully rebelled. She and Mom were out grocery shopping for family Saturday brunch.

This was a few years ago, right before Gabby was going to enter high school. They were doing self-checkout, the ones where you scan your own groceries.

Right in front of our mom’s face, Gabby took a packet of disposable razors. She then scanned it and put it into the bag, watching Mom the entire time she did so.

The way she tells it, Mom gave her this strange look she’d never seen before, or since, and never said another word about it.

Gabby’s had beautifully smooth legs ever since.

But that’s my sister Gabby for you. Being a straight-A student and a talented dancer means she can sometimes color outside the lines and know she’ll get away with it.

Being an average student and all, I just don’t see myself getting away with half the things Gabby does. I can’t see myself being bold enough to do what Gabby did.

I told Lindsay Mom would be all over me if I even glanced at a pack of razors.

Speaking of my BFF, what I looked forward to the most about spring break was getting to spend the whole week with Lindsay. We always plan out every day of our spring breaks, down to the last second.

It’s the one week we feel like we’re free to do what we want, when we want.

That’s how we came to call spring break our “Freedom Week.” Since we were little kids, we’ve spent as many of our spring breaks together as we possibly could.

We’ve even had our parents agree to a few sleepovers during Freedom Week.

Actually, this has been going on since we were babies, because of our moms.

Back then, our moms planned our spring breaks, since they both worked at the school and had off at the same time.

Then, the four of us would spend almost all our spring breaks together, every year. We would watch movies, do projects, and later, go on hikes. Fun times!

As soon as we got to decision-making age, whenever that was, our moms left it up to us to plan our spring breaks.

So that’s the long and short of how Freedom Week was born. Usually during Freedom Week we’ve kept up the tradition of doing fun art projects and geeking out on our favorite movies.

But this year, now that we were in middle school, I wanted to level up and do different stuff!

For instance, I wanted to incorporate some acting exercises that we did in camp last summer.

I couldn’t wait to tell Lindsay about my ideas for Freedom Week.

On the Friday before spring break, I walked into the school lunchroom and headed straight for our usual table in the center, close to where the girls’ soccer and field hockey teams sat.

Lindsay is no athlete and neither am I. She is a no-nonsense working girl, and I’m an artist.

We didn’t really fit into one particular group, so our table was a hodgepodge of girls with some different and overlapping interests: our friend Michelle, who’s a photographer, Lindsay’s new friend Maria, whose family opened a cool Puerto Rican bakery in town; and Melanie Fox, a friend of Lindsay’s from her art class.

Overall, lunch was a pretty cool scene.

Today, Lindsay was the first one at our lunch table. Perfect timing!

I liked when we could grab some moments alone before the other girls swooped in with their raucous laughter and hilarious dramas.

“Hey, tuna on rye,” I said, sitting down.

“What’s up, leftover lasagna,” she answered back.

Lindsay had tuna on rye and I had, well, leftover lasagna.

We smiled knowingly at each other, because it was a comfort to know someone and be known so well. We always knew what the other was having based on the day of the week.

I noticed Lindsay was jotting something on a piece of paper. When she finished, she raised her catlike green eyes to me and smiled.

“I’ve been brainstorming a list of movies that we can watch this week,” she said.

“About Freedom Week,” I said. “I was thinking we could watch movies along a certain theme.”

“Like what?”

“What do you think of anime?” I asked.

Lindsay’s eyes slid back down to her paper.

“I have a couple animes on here, but not a week’s worth,” she said. “Maybe we can have an anime… day.

“Oh, how about this… each day we have a different movie theme? We can even have a scary movie night!” she added excitedly.

“Great idea, Linds,” I...

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Verlag
Simon Spotlight
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1665900792
ISBN 13 
9781665900799
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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