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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher is a whimsical fantasy story about a fourteen-year-old girl named Mona, who possesses magical abilities tied to baking. Living in a city where magic users are disappearing, Mona must navigate both the dangers threatening her world and her unique powers when she unwittingly becomes entangled in a fight against a looming villainous threat. With a sentient gingerbread man at her side, adventure and courage blend with clever humour and charm in her journey.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You might enjoy this book if you love a blend of magic, humour, and clever storytelling. It offers a unique twist on a fantasy adventure, featuring a young protagonist whose magical talent involves baking. With charming characters and a whimsical plot, this story is perfect for those who appreciate creativity, warmth, and a dash of mischief in their fantasy reads.

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Winner of the 2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

Winner of the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Winner of the Locus Award for Young Adult Fiction

Winner of the Dragon Award for Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel

Winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature

Winner of the Cóyotl Award for Best Novel

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...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781614505242

Publisher: Argyll Productions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 July 2020

Imprint: Argyll Productions

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 327g

Pages: 320

Collections

Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Sci-Fi & Fantasy T. Kingfisher Young Adult

About the Author

T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Cóyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections. This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about elves and goblins. When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies. www.tkingfisher.com

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