Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen returns in this thirtieth chapter-book devoted to her ongoing crime-solving adventures. When she and her father and friends head to their local senior center to put on a talent show for the members, Cam soon finds herself involved in another mystery. Ken, the baker who supplied the refreshments for the show, discovers that someone has stolen a wedding cake and other baked goods from his truck. With just three hours to the wedding, can Cam and her friends find the thief and retrieve the cake...?

I have fond memories of reading some of the early entries in David A. Adler's long-running Cam Jansen series when I was in grade school, back in the 1980s. Interested in familiarizing myself with the literature available to the beginning chapter-book audience, I returned to the series this past year (2020) as part of a reading project, and have slowly been making my way through them. I find that the later entries in the series are somewhat less engaging than the earlier titles, which could be partially owing to nostalgia - after all, I recall enjoying the early entries when I was a girl - but which is also no doubt due to the fact that the mysteries have become more obvious, because of the formula Adler employs. I knew who the guilty party was on page three of Cam Jansen and the Wedding Cake Mystery, and I didn't find the process whereby Cam came to the same conclusion particularly involving. Having said that, I am not the target audience, and suspect that young readers will find this mystery more mysterious than I did. Recommended to fans of the Cam Jansen books, and to beginning chapter-book readers who enjoy mystery stories. ( )

This book is a mystery book that is also filled with lots of fun. I used to always read the Nancy Drew mystery books and that is what this book reminds me of. This book is about a talent show at a senior center that is interrupted because they realize that during the show, a wedding cake goes missing. Cam Jansen must use her photographic memory to solve this sweet mystery. This is a perfect book for beginning chapter book readers. The words in the book are big and has lots of pictures throughout which is something I always looked for in a book when I was a child. This book is a great stepping stone for children between picture books and chapter books.

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