Books like A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Fourteen-year-old Mona's only magic is making bread do what she wants, so finding a dead girl on the floor of her aunt's bakery is the start of more trouble than she bargained for, in a city where wizards are vanishing.
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Alanna: The First Adventure
Alanna of Trebond, who wants to be a knight, swaps places with her twin brother, who wants to be a sorcerer, and enters the royal palace as a page disguised as a boy.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
Nettle & Bone
Marra, the quiet, overlooked third princess, decides to kill the prince who has married her sisters, and sets out with a dust-wife, a disgraced knight and a dog made of bones.
The House Witch
Finlay Ashowan, the new royal cook of Daxaria, wants only to keep to his kitchen and his secrets, but the magic he cooks into his food soon draws the knights and nobles of the castle to his door.
Redwall
The peaceful mice of Redwall Abbey are threatened by Cluny the Scourge, a one-eyed rat, and his horde, and a clumsy young novice, Matthias, sets out to find the lost sword of the abbey's hero, Martin the Warrior.
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea
Reyna, a guard sworn to a cruel queen, and Kianthe, the most powerful mage in the world, run away together to open the bookshop and tea shop they have always dreamed of in a frontier town, where trouble finds them anyway.
Sabriel
Sabriel, at boarding school south of the Wall in Ancelstierre, receives her father's sword and bells, the tools of the Abhorsen who lays the dead to rest, and crosses into the Old Kingdom, where the dead are rising, to find him.
The Beast Player
Elin's mother cares for the giant water serpents that are the backbone of the kingdom's army, and when several die on her watch she is sentenced to death; Elin, alone, finds she can do what no one else can with the realm's beasts.
Magician
Pug, an orphaned kitchen boy at the castle of Crydee, is apprenticed to the magician Kulgan just as invaders from another world begin coming through a rift in space, and the war that follows carries him and his friend Tomas far from home.
Sorcery of Thorns
Elisabeth Scrivener, an orphan raised in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, where grimoires can turn into monsters, is blamed for a deadly act of sabotage and must trust the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and his demon servant to clear her name.
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Tao, a travelling fortune-teller whose small magic sees only small futures, keeps to the road with her mule until a reformed thief and an ex-mercenary ask her help to find a lost child, and a baker and a slightly magical cat join them.
Pawn of Prophecy
A farm boy raised by his aunt is swept onto a quest across kingdoms when a stolen relic sets an ancient prophecy in motion, and his family turns out to be far older than they seem.