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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

Pages
306
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

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...

About the author

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T. Kingfisher

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, Coyotl 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...

Characters

MonaProtagonist
BobSupporting
SpindleSupporting
Aunt TabithaSupporting
All characters in A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

Frequently asked questions

  • Is A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking part of a series?

    No, it is a standalone novel. Author T. Kingfisher has not written a direct sequel.

  • What awards has A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking won?

    It won the 2020 Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction and the 2020 Cóyotl Award for Best Novel, plus the 2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, the 2021 Locus Award for Young Adult Fiction, the 2021 Dragon Award for Best Young Adult/Middle Grade Novel, and the 2021 Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature.

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