Hole in the Middle by Coco Simon (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Hole in the Middle by Coco Simon Heres the latest fun, sweet series from the author of the Cupcake Diaries and Sprinkle Sundays series!Everythings better with a donut. Lindsay Cooper is about to start middle school. In her free time, she works at her familys restaurant, The Park View, handing out the worlds most delicious donuts at the Donut Dreams counter. Her grandmother started the counter as a way to send Lindsays dad to college, and Lindsay wants to use her job the same way—to make her dream of going to school far away from her small town a reality. Home feels different ever since Lindsays mom passed away two years ago. And not having her mom around to help her get through the start of middle school doesnt help her "first day of school" angst. But with her cousins Kelsey and Molly by her side, not to mention her BFF Casey, Lindsay soon discovers family and friends go a long way towards filling any hole in your heart. And life can still be as fun as a pink donut with rainbow sprinkles! FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography From cupcakes to ice cream and donuts! When shes not daydreaming about yummy snacks, Coco Simon edits childrens 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 shes eaten. She is the author of the Cupcake Diaries, the Sprinkle Sundays, and the Donut Dreams series. Her newest series is Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch. Excerpt from Book Chapter One: Donuts Are My Life Chapter One Donuts Are My Life My grandmother started Donut Dreams, a little counter in my familys restaurant that sells her now-famous homemade donuts, when my dad was about my age. The name was inspired by my grandmothers dream to save enough money from the business to send him to any college he wanted, even if it was far away from our small town. It worked. Well, it kind of worked. I mean, my grandmothers donuts are pretty legendary. Her counter is so successful that instead of only selling donuts in the morning, the shop is now open all day. Her donuts have even won all sorts of awards, and there are rumors that theres a cooking show on TV that might come film a segment about how she started Donut Dreams from virtually nothing. My grandmother, whom I call Nans--short for Nana--raised enough money to send my dad to college out of state all the way in Chicago. But then he came back. Ive heard Nans was happy about that, but Im not because it means Im stuck here in this small town. So now its my turn to come up with my own "donut dreams," because I am dreaming about going to college in a big, glamorous city somewhere far, far away. Dad jokes that if I do go to Chicago, I have to come back like he did. No way, I thought to myself. Nobody ever moves here, and nobody ever seems to move away, either. Its just the same old, same old, every year: the Fall Fling, the Halloween Hoot Fair, Thanksgiving, Snowflake Festival, New Years, Valentines Day and the Sweetheart Ball... I mean, we know whats coming. Everyone makes a big deal about the first day of school, but its not like youre with new kids or anything. Theres one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school. Our grandparents used to go to a regional school, which meant they were with kids from other towns in high school. But the school was about forty-five minutes away, and getting there and back was a big pain, so they eventually decided to keep everyone at the high school here. Its a big old building where my dad went to school, and his brother and my aunt, and just about everyone elses parents. Some kids do go away for college. My BFF Caseys sister, Gabby, is one of them. She keeps telling Casey that she should go to the same college so they can live together while Gabby goes to medical school, which is her dream. Its a cool idea, but whats the point of moving away from everything if you just end up moving in with your sister? Maybe its that I dont have a sister, I have a brother, and living with him is messy. I mean that literally.Skylar is ten. He spits globs of toothpaste in the sink, his clothes are all over his room, and he drinks milk directly from the carton, which makes Nans shriek. My grandparents basically live with us now, which is a whole long story. Well, the short story is that my mother died two years ago. After Mom died, everyone was a mess, so Nans and Grandpa ended up helping out a lot. Their house is only a short drive down the street from us, so it makes sense theyre around all the time. Even their dog comes over now, which is good because I love him, but weird because Mom would never let us get a pet. I still feel like shes going to come walking in the door one day and be really mad that theres a dog running around with muddy paws. My mother was an artist. She was an art teacher in the middle school where Im starting this year, which will be kind of weird. Theres a big mural that all her students painted on one wall of the school after she died. The last time I was in the school was when they had a ceremony and put a plaque next to it with her name on it. Now Ill see it every day. Its not like I dont think about her every day anyway. Her studio is still set up downstairs. Its a small room off the kitchen with great light. For a while none of us went in there, or wed just kind of tiptoe in and see if we could still smell her. Lately we use it more. I like to go in and sit in her favorite chair and read. Its a cozy chair with lots of pillows you can kind of sink into, and I like to think its her giving me a hug. Dad uses her big worktable to do paperwork. The only people who dont go in are Nans and Grandpa. Dad grumbles that its the one room in the house that Nans hasnt invaded. Sometimes I catch Nans in the doorway, though, just looking at Moms paintings on the walls. Mom liked to paint pictures of us and flowers. One wall is covered in black-and-white sketches of us and the other is this really cool, colorful collection of painted flowers with some close up, some far away, and some in vases. I could stare at them for hours. I remember there used to be fresh flowers all over the house. Mom even had little vases with flowers in the bathrooms, which was a little crazy, especially since Skylar always knocked them over and there would be puddles of water everywhere. Sometimes when I had a bad day shed make a special little arrangement for me and put it next to my bed. When she was sick, I used to go out to her garden and cut them and make little bouquets for her. Id put them on her night table, just like she did for me. Nans always makes sure there are flowers on the kitchen table, but its not really the same. Grandpa and Nans own a restaurant called the Park View Table. Locals call it the Park for short. They dont get any points for originality, because the restaurant is literally across from a park, so it has a park view. But it seems to be the place in town where everyone ends up. On the weekends everyone stops by in the mornings, either to pick up donuts and coffee or for these giant pancakes that everyone loves. Lunch is busy during the week, with everyone on their lunch breaks and some older people who meet there regularly, and dinnertime is the slowest. I know all this because I basically grew up there. Nans comes up with the menus and the specials, and shes always trying out new recipes with the chef. Or on us. Luckily, Nans is a great cook, but some of her "creative" dishes are a little too kooky to eat. Nans still makes a lot of the donuts, but Dad does too, especially the creative ones. Donut Dreams used to have just the usual sugar or jelly-filled or chocolate, which were all delicious, but Dad started making PB&J donuts and banana cr Details ISBN1534460268 Author Coco Simon Pages 160 Audience Age 8-12 Publisher Simon & Schuster Series Donut Dreams ISBN-10 1534460268 ISBN-13 9781534460263 Format Hardcover Imprint Simon Spotlight Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY FIC Language English Series Number 1 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-12-10 NZ Release Date 2019-12-10 US Release Date 2019-12-10 UK Release Date 2019-12-10 Illustrations f-c gloss jkt (no sfx) Alternative 9781534460256 Audience Children / Juvenile AU Release Date 2019-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137583229;

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