The Secret Cookie Club Books in Order

The Secret Cookie Club series starts at Moonlight Ranch summer camp, where four girls in Flowerpot Cabin do not exactly hit it off. Grace is quiet, Emma likes taking charge, Olivia is dramatic, and Lucy brings her own style to everything. Their counselor Hannah gets them into the kitchen, where measuring, mixing, and baking do what forced togetherness could not. By the time the first batch of cookies comes out, the girls have started to become real friends, and that shared moment is the seed of the whole series.

These books are about friendship, but not the shiny fake version where everyone gets along after one nice talk.

Freeman gives each girl her own worries, habits, and family life, so the friendships feel earned. After camp ends, the girls keep in touch with letters, messages, recipes, and homemade care packages. Cookies become a way of saying I remember you, I am listening, and I am on your side. That idea carries into the later books, where school problems, family tensions, and shifting loyalties test the group. In Campfire Cookies, the friends return to Moonlight Ranch and find themselves trying to solve a mystery involving counselor Hannah's broken heart, which is exactly the kind of dramatic assignment they would give themselves.

The camp setting matters because it gives the series a strong sense of place. Cabins, campfires, chores, the camp kitchen, and the rituals of summer all help shape the girls' bond. Even when the action moves away from camp, Moonlight Ranch still feels like home base, the place where the group first figured out who they were to one another. Freeman also builds the series with multiple viewpoints and lots of communication between characters, so readers get to see how the same friendship can feel different from each side.

The cookies are cozy, but the feelings underneath them are complicated.

That is why the series works. It is warm without being mushy, funny without trying too hard, and honest about the fact that girls can care about each other deeply while still misunderstanding one another. Recipes add a practical bonus, but the real appeal is the way small acts of kindness keep rippling outward. Readers who like friendship stories, summer camp books, and middle grade novels with distinct voices will feel at home here. Start with The Secret Cookie Club and read forward, since the fun comes from watching the group form, wobble, and slowly become something sturdy enough to last beyond one summer.