A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

by T. Kingfisher

Paperback, 2020

Status

Available

Call number

FIC Kingfisher

Description

Fantasy. Young Adult Fiction. HTML: Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona's worries....

Publication

Argyll Productions (2020), 320 pages

Awards

Locus Award (Finalist — Young Adult Novel — 2021)
Mythopoeic Awards (Finalist — Children's Literature — 2021)
Cóyotl Awards (Shortlist — Novel — 2020)
Dragon Award (Winner — 2021)
Lodestar Award (Nominee — 2021)

Language

Original publication date

2020-07

Physical description

320 p.; 8.25 inches

ISBN

1614505241 / 9781614505242

Barcode

4782
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