A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking (2020)

Mona's magic works on bread, and the bakery has taught her what that material can do. When the city expects far more from her, the pleasure is in watching a narrow, practised ability stretched through ingenuity. The sourdough starter is memorable; the more pointed question is why a fourteen-year-old has been left to solve an adult failure. A lively, sometimes dark adventure for readers who want a trade's limitations to matter to the magic.