A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking Kathleen Marcotte and how we keep moving

and how we keep moving forward

" —Marc Guggenheim

The fate of all life on Earth depends on a girl who doesn’t know if she wants to live

There’s no reason for you to be bothering him

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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking Kathleen Marcotte and how we keep movingWinner 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 Cyotl Award for Best Novel Fourteen year old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control