Confectionately Yours Series

Back-to-School Confessions from
Confectionately Yours

Are you ready for the new school year, or does it fill you with dread? Find out how Hayley Hicks, the star of the Confectionately Yours series, is preparing for the big day!

Confession: I’m Soooo Not Ready For This

Here are my top five fears about going back to school:

1. I will accidentally tuck my skirt into my underwear and will walk around like that all day.
2. We’ll have a pop quiz on summer reading that counts for 80% of our final grade.
3. I will sit in something disgusting on the school bus seat.
4. Exploding pen.
5. My ex-BFF Artie will find a way to humiliate me . . . again.

It can be hard to walk through the double doors on the first day. But it can be exciting, too. New friends, new classes, new books—and I always love that crinkly sound my notebooks make when I open them for the first time. It sounds like a fresh start . . . which I could definitely use, by the way. Last year, my parents got divorced, my mom lost her job, and my best friend turned on me. It’s time for a reboot. So I’ve brought a couple of freshly baked cupcakes to share with my new friend Meghan at lunch. That way I can be sure that things will start off on a sweet note.

What’s your favorite thing about the new school year? Read the first chapter of Hayley’s true confessions in Confectionately Yours: Taking the Cake!, new this month from author Lisa Papademetriou!

--Vanessa, Scholastic Staffer

Comments

[Comment #1]

I need to read that book!

[Comment #2]

I never actually tuck my shirt in my underwear, or tuck it in, in general. And, FYI, i rock at reading. I can finish a long test in ten minutes at the most. 80 percent of your grade? If I had that, I most certainly will pass to the next grade level!!!! I don't take the bus, but I used to. It stunk, because I didn't have any friends in that time. Exploding pen? That's not very realisitc.

[Comment #3]

why that this late my school and i are already back in school after today its our 5 week of school

[Comment #4]

I want to read this book SOOOOO badly but I am in another series right now.

[Comment #5]

i would not go back to school!?!

[Comment #6]

My favorite thing about a new school year is meeting my old and new friends . Also , it remindes me that I am growing up and need to become more mature . My favorite thing about a new school year is learning and dicovering new and exciting things this trip around. I enjoy learning new things because it updates my brain a lil more each year . A new school year should be fun and exciting ! WIth a new school year , you should be prepared to learn new things , and not get in any trouble . With a new school year , you should improve on your behavir and learning skills . I know my school year is going to be exciting ! I;m going to be new people and maybe some new teachers .

[Comment #7]

i LOVE this series!!!! i am on this book right know!! ♥

[Comment #8]

OMGOODNESSS I compleatly understood how hayly felt i went through most of the same things she did just over 2 years ago

[Comment #9]

i dont like itttttt

[Comment #10]

i dont like it

[Comment #11]

i soo need to read this book it looks good

[Comment #12]

i love thise book!!!!!!

[Comment #13]

i am trying to get all the series but im reading save the cupcakes. it is so interesting to me.i want every single book.;)

[Comment #14]

i need this book!

[Comment #15]

i am on the 3rd book and requested the 4th

[Comment #16]

how manny books aer thair???????

[Comment #17]

I asked for all of the the books not just one! I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo MAD!!!!!!!!

[Comment #18]

Is there even a 5th book? Oh wiat I don't know you know why becuase this thing doesn't tell me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!