A Hint of Hydra

✍ Scribed by Lang, Heidi; Bartkowski, Kati

• Book ID: 110265345
• Publisher: Aladdin
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 728 KB
• Series: Mystic Cooking Chronicles 2; Lailu Loganberry 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781481477970

✦ Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old chef Lailu Loganberry must stop a war between the elves and scientists in this follow-up to A Dash of Dragon, which Kirkus Reviews calls "a recipe for success."
It's the Week of Masks, a festival held to chase away evil spirits. But Lailu doesn't have time to worry about demons. She has bigger fish to fry—or rather, griffons, now that she's been asked to prepare a mystical feast for the king's executioner, Lord Elister.

Unfortunately Lailu's meal is overshadowed by the scientists' latest invention: automatons, human-shaped machines that will respond to their masters' every order. Most people are excited by the possibilities, but the mechanical men leave Lailu with a bad taste in her mouth.

Even worse, the elves still blame the scientists for the attacks on them weeks ago, and Lailu worries that the elves might be cooking up revenge. So when she and her sorta-rival-turned-almost-friend Greg stumble across the body of a...