Café Chaos: The Way the Cookie Crumbles

What’s it about?

The story.

Hope Crumble's family are still serving up cakes, coffee and calamity - and this time Mum has accidentally over-ordered the beans, leaving them just two months to shift the lot. Cue a run of gloriously chaotic family meetings: Aunt Rita goes full 'flavours of Mexico', while cousin Connor pitches a bean-eating competition to lure in the post-gym crowd. Hope, meanwhile, is trying to keep her distance and simply get some time to be a child while her family sort out their own crises. Then rescue turns up from the most unlikely direction of all - Skyla, Hope's arch-enemy and school bully, who suddenly needs somewhere to hold her charity fashion show. Catherine Wilkins's second Café Chaos story is as funny and warm-hearted as the first, mixing outrageous family antics with real, recognisable feelings about pressure, rivalry and finding room to be yourself. Illustrated throughout by Katie Abey, it's an easy, laugh-out-loud read for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.