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Original Title: | The Young Wizards |
ISBN: | 0739419439 (ISBN13: 9780739419434) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Young Wizards #1-5 |
Diane Duane
Hardcover | Pages: 758 pages Rating: 4.33 | 171 Users | 9 Reviews
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Title | : | The Young Wizards (Young Wizards #1-5) |
Author | : | Diane Duane |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 758 pages |
Published | : | 2001 by Science Fiction Book Club (first published 1991) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult |
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Book club collection of So You Want to Be a Wizard; Deep Wizardry; High Wizardry; A Wizard Abroad; The Wizard's Dilemma. Long before there was Harry Potter, there was Nita Callahan and her friend Kit. Nita doesn't have a highly significant scar on her forehead, nor does she live with abusive adoptive parents. She's a perfectly ordinary girl living with her perfectly amiable family (well, her younger sister, Dairine, is impossible, but that's the way younger sisters are) on Long Island, where she goes to public school and has problems with the class bully. Then one day she runs across one of those little books that help young people decide on a career: So You Want To Be a Doctor; So You Want To Be a Plumber; So You Want To Be a Wizard... Nita can't resist. She takes it home; she studies it; she recites the Wizard's Oath she finds inside--and she finds herself launched on a whole series of dangerously magical adventures. They take her to the depths of the ocean, to the moon and beyond, and to other dimensions entirely. She meets and befriends (and sometimes does battle with) wizards of all sorts and species. And every so often she, Kit and Dairine save the universe.Rating About Books The Young Wizards (Young Wizards #1-5)
Ratings: 4.33 From 171 Users | 9 ReviewsRate About Books The Young Wizards (Young Wizards #1-5)
This is one of those books that I will never get rid of. I enjoyed it as a child and hope to one day share these amazing adventures with my own family.Good solid 4 star series. I've currently read up to A Wizard of Mars (book 9, I think) as of June 2015.
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The book to read and re-read. I wish SFBC makes a second volume with the new books that Diane Duane wrote recently. Although the synopsis compared this series to Harry Potter, it feels more like Narnia series minus the Christian allegory (although there is some, it's not meant to be didactic, I think).
Every time I read this series, especially these first five books, and MOST especially Wizard's Dilemma, I cry. Which wouldn't be so bad if it were the way I normally cry over books, which involves lots of tissues and is fairly cathartic.With this, I do a bit of that, but mostly I just get choked up.And this time, it's totally Jonathan's fault. And he knows why.
My sister let me borrow this book and I will read it in approximately 3-4 months. So, the only thing that I can say about this probably amazing book is that I can't wait to read it!
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