# Just a Pinch of Magic

**Author:** Alechia Dow
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 2023
**Page count:** 194
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9781250829108`
**ISBN-10:** `1250829100`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/just-a-pinch-of-magic
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In a small town, a girl from a family of bakers with a sweet kind of magic and a girl whose family carries an old curse cross paths. Alechia Dow's middle-grade fantasy is about friendship, family legacies, and breaking cycles. Nominated for the 2026 Sasquatch Book Award (grades 4-8), the Washington Library Association's statewide young-readers' choice award.

## Themes

- magic
- friendship
- family

## Where this book is assigned

### Washington Sasquatch Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)

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