Ms. Jenkinss fingers dug into Ellas shoulder. Ella looked around the room. The other kids had smiles pasted on their faces, but their eyes were hungry and malicious. Ella loves to practice designs for the bakery shell someday own. Shes also one of the few people not to try the cookies and cakes made by a mysterious new baker. Soon the people who ate the baker's treats start acting oddly, and Ella wonders if the cookies are to blame.

Megan Atwood lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she teaches creative writing at a local college and the Loft Literary Center. She has an M.F.A. in writing for children and young adults.