<p><strong>Meet Sadie.</strong></p><p>When she's not mixing it up on the basketball court, she's mixing the perfect batter with her friends in the cupcake club. Sadie's definitely no stranger to competition, but the oven mitts are off when the club is chosen to appear on <em>Battle of the Bakers</em>, the ultimate cupcake competition on TV. </p><p>But the real battle happens off camera when the club's baking business starts losing money.</p><p>With the clock ticking and the cameras rolling, will the club and their cupcakes rise to the occasion?</p><p><strong>Includes recipes and tips to try at home!</strong></p><p>"Kids and cupcakes are the perfect recipe!"-Sophie and Katerine, stars of TLC's <em>DC Cupcakes</em></p><p><b>Chapter 1</b></p><p>Sadie Harris kicked back on her bed, stretching her long legs up against the wooden headboard. She pitched a pink rubber ball against the wall, catching it effortlessly in her baseball glove, over and over.</p><p>"Quit the bouncing," her big brother Tyler shouted. His bedroom was on the other side. "I'm trying to study."</p><p>Sadie sighed. She needed to study, too. But she'd been wrestling with her math homework for more than an hour and it just refused to click.</p><p>She sat up and flipped open her math notebook. There it was, the still unsolved story problem: "Ms. Erikka had 420 pencils and 112 erasers. She kept 15 pencils and 5 erasers for herself, and now she needs to divide the rest evenly among 30 students. Write an equation and solve."</p><p>She stared at the question and it stared back at her, daring her to start writing. She had no clue where to begin. Why does Ms. Erikka have so many pencils and erasers? And honestly, couldn't each student just take one and leave the extras in the supply basket? Did they have to make things ls,