A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

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 Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel

Winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature

Winner of the Cóyotl Award for Best Novel


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320 pages

Average rating: 7.84

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Anonymous
Mar 13, 2024
8/10 stars
A cute story about a magical baker. I have done myself and this book a disservice reading it when I wasn't in the mood for YA. The dead horse felt very much like what I would expect from Kingfisher. The brand of creepy, prickly, yet funny characterizations. There's definitely a moral or two built in and don"t worry you won't miss it. Its a cozy war story. Its a pretty good time.
MelodySeesTrees
Feb 14, 2024
9/10 stars
4.75 ☆
The novel blurb may lead you to believe that the crucial element is the dead body but that plays a small small roll in the actual plot. There are some rather unbelievable but still enjoyable elements- The leaders of the land relying on a 14 year old and her friend to make sense of political issues and power grabs- is a key example.
I adored the sentient bread and the relatively well-thought-out magic system. There was realism in the magic an...read more
rdmoreland0801
Oct 01, 2023
8/10 stars
Please keep in mind, this is very much YA. While there is murder and war, the story is told from the perspective of a 14 year old girl. The narrator was great and made it feel like you were in Mona’s mind as a young teenager being thrown into a war as a hero she did not want to be. Mona is the only wizard left to defend her city from a traitor and his band of ruthless killers. After an attempted murder, Mona discovers there’s even more to the...read more

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