As Mia gets to know Fig and her friends-including Cooper, the artistic boy who’s always on Mia’s mind-she realizes that she’s not the only one with a painful past. There she meets Fig-blue-haired, friendly, and vivacious-who takes Mia under her wing. All Mia wants to do is hide from the world, but instead she’s stuck with a summer job in the bustling kitchen of the café down the street. She’s left with accusations, rumors, and guilt so powerful it consumes her.Īs the rest of Mia’s family struggles with their own grief, Mia is sent to New York City to spend the summer with a grandmother she’s never met. But no matter how much she tries to reconstruct the events of that fateful night, Mia’s memory is spotty at best. It’s been a year since fifteen-year-old Mia Hopkins was in a car crash that killed her older sister, Rachel, and left her terribly scarred. Her writing has received many awards and accolades and she has been told more than once by her son that when she writes, she makes weird faces.įrom acclaimed author Heather Hepler comes this poignant young adult novel about tragedy, forgiveness, and love-perfect for fans of Robyn Schneider and Justina Chen Currently she is fascinated with aliens and fruitcake. Outer space, cupcakes, Renaissance Fairs, bacon truffles, Disney Princesses, sea glass, and love potions have all made the list. Heather fills her award-winning novels with whatever captures her attention. Now instead of making up outrageous stories to explain why her hands were dyed purple what happened to the last cookie or why she decided that spending twenty dollars on a talking fish was a good idea, she pours her creative energy into her novels. It was an amazing day when she realized that she could use her talent for good instead of evil. Heather has been making up stories in her head for as long as she can remember. Heather Hepler is the author of Frosted Kisses (Scholastic, 2015) Love? Maybe (Dial, 2012), The Cupcake Queen (Dutton, 2009), Jars of Glass (Dutton, 2008), Dream Factory (Dutton, 2007), and Scrambled Eggs at Midnight (Dutton, 2006).

The cupcake queen by heather hepler