The Great Chocolate Cake Bake-off by Philippa Werry (a Wellington writer) would suit 10 year-old and up. It’s a funny and gentle story about a boy coping with the fact that his family is rather different (his mother dead and his father a sculptor who uses recycled materials), learning that perhaps he can be good at some things. A younger brother, an annoying girl-next-door who refuses to be intimidated by the in-crowd round out the main characters, and it’s good character-driven writing.