HOW TO SAVE A GINGERBREAD TOWN

Rock candy prisons? Caramel flooded streets? Rampaging cookie giants?

Not at the Cinnamon Falls Gingerbread Festival!

It's summer after sixth grade, and Angie's dreaming of

the fun she'll have at Festival getting her cookbook signed

by her favorite celebrity chef, eating deep-fried

gingerbread men, and watching the parade and the

fireworks. She wants to do it all with her two best friends,

Hazel and Wesley, although Wesley's been too busy to bake

now that he has new friends on the Ultimate Frisbee team.

And Hazel? Angie hasn't heard from Hazel in months.

Not a single sprinkle message.

But the Festival takes a shocking turn when, to Angie's

astonishment, Hazel's magic spoon turns up in an antique

box hidden beneath the statue of Honoria Castle in the

park. How did it get there? How long has it been there?

And most importantly, how many more sugar sprite

secrets has Hazel been keeping?

Angie and Wesley whip up a plan to return Hazel's

spoon to her and end up on the time-twisting ride of their

lives in search of the mysterious author of a banished

cookbook full of dangerous, forbidden recipes.

A cookbook the Blackapples are chasing to bake a monstrous

pastry with the power to destroy Cinnamon Falls.

Unless Angie and her friends find it first.