Their Just Desserts
By (Author) Tracy Badua
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
26th August 2025
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Cooking and food
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Parents
Hardback
352
Perfect for fans of The Great British Baking Show and Clue,this enchanting and rollicking follow-up to The Cookie Crumblesfollows two best friends caught up in a twisty mystery when jewels go missing at a high-stakes baking competition.
Baker extraordinaire Laila Thomas and budding journalist Lucy Flores are living it up at the top of the junior high food chain as eighth graders. But between busy schedules and kinda-boyfriends, these two best friends havent gotten to hang out as much. So, when Jaden, an ex-competition rival, begs the duo to step back into the world of cooking competitions and crimethe answer is yes.
Jaden is desperate: His father is accused of stealing prized jewels on the set of an amateur kids holiday baking show. The plan is for Laila to smash the competition while Lucy investigates behind the scenesbut their half-baked plan gets turned totally upside down when Lucy ends up in front of the cameras instead.
As the investigation and competition heat up, Lucy and Lailas bond is put to the ultimate test. Can they solve this bakeoff mystery, or will theyand their friendshipcrack under pressure
Tracy Badua is an award-winning Filipino American author of books about young people with sunny hearts in a sometimes stormy world. By day, she is an attorney who works in national housing policy, and by night, she squeezes in writing, family time, and bites of her secret candy stash. She lives in San Diego, California. Alechia Dow is a former pastry chef, a librarian, and an award-winning author of acclaimed young adult sci-fi fantasies, several short anthology pieces, and magical (sometimes mysterious) middle grade stories. When not writing, you can find her having epic dance parties with her family, baking, reading, and exploring her local food scene.