Ten-year-old Grace is crushed to learn that her grandparents' bakery might close after thirty years and wonders how her own business, which they inspired, can survive if theirs cannot, but she and her friends use their talents and newly-acquired business skills to try to save the day.

Everyone knows Lindsay loves working at the bakery counter in her family's restaurant... So how is she going to deal with a new bakery in town that will compete with Donut Dreams? Not only that, the owner's daughter, Maria, is in her class. She's glamorous, exciting, and just moved to town from Chicago. She's everything Lindsay wants to be--or at least that's what Lindsay thinks.

Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas when she goes to Paris with her mother and has trouble getting along with her cousin, while at home her friends start the business she proposed without her.

The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.--

Wanting to be a part of her family's Dia de los Muertos preparations, Leonora sneaks out of school to discover her mother, aunt, and older sisters have been keeping a secret.