A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking Kathleen Marcotte against all odds

against all odds

and how we keep moving forward

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

this tale humorously explores the big emotions of one very cranky book

★ “Combines humanity and technology with imaginative splendor

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking Kathleen Marcotte against all oddsWinner 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