A Baker's Guide to Robber Pie
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Publisher Description
A clever young girl looking for adventure gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles into a nest of robbers in this tale baked with magic, fun, and friendship!
Evie Baker is a great story-teller, an avid prankster, and a fantastic baker. And while she loves her parent’s bakery, she has no plans to stay in their small town and become stuffy or static. Evie wants to go on adventures and she knows just what she needs to do it!
With her best friend, Cecily, by her side, Evie sets off into the Old Forest to find one of the Fel, a group of crow-like magical creatures who can’t lie. She is sure her family’s irresistible raspberry tart and a carefully crafted deal will get them to take her on a magical adventure—without getting her eaten or worse. But the forest hides many dangers and when they finally find their Fel, they also discover a nest of robbers!
Having seen the Robber Lord’s face, Evie is whisked away into hiding for her own protection. But even in the queen’s own city, trouble has a way of finding her…
YA novelist Caitlin Sangster makes her middle-grade debut in A Baker's Guide to Robber Pie, a fun fairytale filled with adventure, friendship, baking, and the power of a tale well-told.
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Twelve-year-old Evie Baker, whom cover art depicts with light brown skin, is a natural-born storyteller dreaming of real-life adventure beyond her bland-feeling town. Trading in dull school lectures about monstrous creatures for the thrill of finding one, she seeks to catch a Fel—a large, magical crow-like being that would "give you their magic if you made a deal with them"—using one of her family's famous raspberry tarts as bait. But Evie gets more than she bargained for when a band of elusive thieves and the infamous Robber Lord show up at the same time the Fel does. Through a sort of witness protection program, Evie is whisked away from her parents and best friend to the royal city of Reinstadt. But Evie is determined to find the truth and get back home, and with only presumed-white message runner Max and white-haired, dark-skinned maid Gisa as allies, she must navigate secret identities, deep-rooted prejudices, and hidden villainy. Overstuffed passages sometimes slow this middle grade debut, but Sangster (She Who Rides the Storm) writes in a jaunty, irreverent third-person voice that befits the book's clever and principled protagonist. Ages 9–12.
