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.