I have just finished reading a book with this unlikely title, and I thought I'd tell you about it!
The main character is a girl of 14 years, Mona, an orphan, who was taken in to live with her aunt and uncle, who are bakers by trade. This all takes place in an alternate universe that's actually quite unremarkable, except that there is magic. Only a small minority of the people have magic, and Mona is one of them. She doesn't have a lot of magic, but when she finds out that their city is under threat, Mona finds herself a part of the city's defenses.
The author, T. Kingfisher, is excellent. She puts in just enough humor in the story to have kept me chuckling all the time (though there were many suspenseful episodes, enough to satisfy a teenager with quite dark tastes), so much so that I wished I had written the story myself!
Kay
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