num_pages: 308
description: 2021 LODESTAR AWARD for BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOKFourteen-year-old Mona isnt like the wizards charged with defending the city. She cant 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 aunts bakery making gingerbread men dance.But Monas life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Monas 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 Monas worries
language: English
title: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
publisher: Argyll Productions