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LUCY KANE HATES
PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES.
Which is a problem because a) lucy lives in the quaint New England town of Briar Glen where everyone loves all things autumn, and b) she’s a barista at her mom’s coffee shop, Cup o’ Jo. As the first fall leaves descend upon Briar Glen, Lucy and her mom gear up for a busy season…
But then Java Junction, a multinational coffee chain, opens a store literally across the street. Home of the world-famous pumpkin spice latte. To make matters worse, it turns out that Jack Harper, the new kid in school and Lucy’s secret crush, is the son of the owners. Talk about mixing business with pleasure.
If Cup o’ Jo wants to survive the competition, from Java Junction, Lucy will have to set aside her feelings for the popular drink-and Jack!-to make this the coziest pumpkin spice season ever.
Katie Cicatelli-Kuc
She’s the author of Rainy Day: A Peppa Pig story (Scholastic, 2023), Going Viral: A Socially Distant Love Story (Scholastic, 2021), Quarantine: A Love Story (Scholastic, 2019), and two Thomas and Friends Step into Reading books: A Ghost on the Track (Random House, 2015) and The Rocket Returns (Random House, 2014). Most recently, Katie's work has appeared in Memorial Sloan Kettering's Visible Ink anthology.
Her new book, Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice is due out August 6, 2024 and is available for pre-order. To learn of upcoming book events, follow Katie on Instagram.
Katie spent over a decade working for children’s books publishers as an in-house copy editor and production editor before becoming a full-time writer. She writes books for young children and teens, and short stories and essays for adults.
Born in the Midwest and raised in the Midwest and Florida, Katie now lives in a yellow house next to a mountain in the Hudson Valley with her family and their animals.