A Wizard'S Guide To Defensive Baking Av T Kingfisher

<p><strong>Winner of the 2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Locus Award for Young Adult Fiction</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Dragon Award Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Children''s Literature</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the C¿yotl Award for Best Novel</strong></p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p>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.