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Hudson can't wait to get out of Watonka, her working-class town outside of Buffalo. Once upon a time, her talent as a skater was going to be her ticket out... but when her parents' marriage unraveled three years ago, so did her dreams. Now, she buries herself in making cupcakes for her mom's... read more
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Characters edit
- Hudson: Main character and narrator of the story. She's an ex-figure skater and now makes cupcakes at her mom's diner.
- Dani: A waitress at Hurley's and Hudson's best friend. They became friends after Hudson quit figure skating.
- Bug: Hudson's little brother. He is obsessed with detective work: DNA, fingerprints, etc.
- Josh: The hockey captain who Hudson meets one day as she is skating. He asks her to help teach the boys on his team some skating technique. He has a crush on Hudson.
- Will: Hockey captain who asks Hudson to help him teach the other boys on the team some hockey technique, seems to have a crush on Hudson.
- Kara: Hudson's ex-best friend, ice skater. They fell out of touch after Hudson choked in figure skating.
- Frankie: Hockey player who takes an interest in Dani.
- Mrs. Avery: Hudson's mother and owner of Hurley's diner. She's raising Hudson and Bug on her own after her husband left.
- Mr. Avery: Hudson's father. He walked out three years ago after cheating on Hudson's mother and now travels with his girlfriend Shelvis.
- Trick: Cook at Hurley's
Quotes edit
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“When you're out here alone, contemplating all the things you didn't do and the person you didn't become... if you think about it too long - if you stand here and consider the great bleakness of it all- a hush seeps into the gray space, and the wind will hollow out your bones, and the purest kind of loneliness comes up from the inside to swallow you like an avalanche p. 27”
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“Are you okay?" he asks. His touch across my forehead makes me shiver. I blink again, trying to piece together the evidence. My head hurts, Josh is holding me, and all I can think is... I didn't was my hair this morning. I totally smell like last night's bacon burger special”
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“Smoke break in fifteen?" I nod. We don't smoke, but we break. It's all very complicated.”
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“Everyone says that the internet is so awesome because you can connect with people from all over the world, but I think it's the opposite. The internet doesn't make it easier to connect with anyone- it just makes it so you don't really have to”
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“They're calling it a storm, and other than the seasonally confused seagulls, I'm the only one stupid enough to hang out on the lake”
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“Ever seen Rain Man" "Mmm-hmm." And that's the most intelligent thing I've said all morning”
Setting & Locations edit
Watonka, New York
- Hurley's Diner
- Fillmore Steel Mill
- Watonka High School
- New Year
- New York
- Baylor
- Canada
- Lake Erie
- Buffalo
- Rochester
- Toronto
First Sentence edit
It was the biggest competition night of my life, but all I could think about was the cheetah bra.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: 'Twas the month before cupcakes
Chapter 1: Damsels in distress
Chapter 2: Cupcakes of destiny
Chapter 3: No one wants to kiss a girl who smells like bacon, so I might as well get fat cupcakes
Chapter 4: When life hands you lemons, stuff 'em in your bra cakes
Chapter 5: Opportunity knocks you on your butt cakes
Chapter 6: Kill me, kill me now cupcakes
Chapter 7: How to appear outwardly cook while totally freaking out on the inside cupcakes
Chapter 8: The good, the bad and the cupcakes
Chapter 9: Sticks and stones may break my bones but falling down hurts real bad too, cupcakes
Chapter 10: Red-Hot double crush cakes
Chapter 11: Shoulda, woulda, coulda cakes
Chapter 12: Dirty little secrets
Chapter 13: Bah Humbug and a merry who cares to you too, cupcakes
Chapter 14: Cupcakes with benefits
Chapter 15: Desperate times calls for desperate cupcakes
Chapter 16: Lights, cameras, cupcakes
Chapter 17: Chocolate banana snap crackle popcakes
Chapter 18: Hester's scarlet letters
Chapter 19: Desolation angels
Chapter 20: The perfect storms
Chapter 21: Woolly mammoth freeze-outs
Chapter 22: Bittersweets
Chapter 23: Liar, liar, cakes on fire
Chapter 24: Friend of the devil cupcakes
Chapter 25: Hudson Avery's last chance triple/triple combo cupcakes
Chapter 26: Not so impossible orange dreams
Chapter 27: Have you cupcakes and eat them toos
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sarah Ockler (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 3, 2012
ISBN: 1442430354
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 3, 2012
ISBN: 1442430354
Page Count: 384
Subjects edit
- Books › Teens › School & Sports › Fiction
- Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance
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