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So You Want to be a Wizard, the first book in the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane, was published in 1983. And now twenty-two years later, comes the eighth book, Wizards at War. Tweens and teens alike have followed the wizardly adventures of Nita and Kit through ancient rituals, battles against creatures in Ireland, and now the biggest challenge of them all: defending wizard and nonwizards from a strange darkness of the mind and heart.
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Wizards at War
The Eighth Book in the Young Wizards Series
Diane Duane
0152047727 Hardcover
Ages: 12 and up
Nita and Kit return from their wizardly holiday, looking forward to getting back to their everyday routine. But there's trouble brewing. A strange darkness of the mind and heart is about to befall the older wizards of the world, stealing away their power. Soon, the young wizards of Earth and many other planets find themselves forced to defend wizards and nonwizards alike.
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So You Want to Be a Wizard
The First Book in the Young Wizards Series
Diane Duane
015216250X Trade Paperback
0152047387 Hardcover
0152049401 Digest
Ages: 10 and up
When Nita finds a book called So You Want to Be a Wizard, she discovers a whole new world of spells, magical creatures, and, of course, wizards.
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Deep Wizardry
The Second Book in the Young Wizards Series
Diane Duane
0152162577 Trade Paperback
0152049428 Digest
Ages: 10 and up
Coming to the aid of a wounded whale, Kit and Nita are plunged into deep wizardry. The whale is a wizard, and she enlists Kit and Nita in battle against the sinister Lone Power. Becoming whales themselves, Nita and Kit join in an ancient ritual performed by whales, dolphins, and a single fearsome shark.
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High Wizardry
The Third Book in the Young Wizards Series
Diane Duane
0152162445 Trade Paperback
015204941X Digest
Ages: 10 and up
Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's little sister, Dairine. Dairine has recenlty become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless power. When Dairine's computerized wizard's manual glibly sends her off on her novice adventure, Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy.
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A Wizard Abroad
The Fourth Book in the Young Wizards Series
Diane Duane
0152162380 Trade Paperback
0152055037 Digest
Ages: 10 and up
To give Nita a vacation from magic, Nita's parents pack her off for a month-long stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But Ireland is even more steeped in magical doings than the United States, and Nita soon finds herself and a host of Irish wizards battling creatures from a nightmare Ireland-a realm where the legends and monsters of the country's mythology are a deadly reality.
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The Wizard's Dilemma
The Fifth Book in the Young Wizards Series
Diane Duane
0152025510 Hardcover
0152024603 Trade Paperback
015205491X Digest
Ages: 12 and up
Kit and Nita are having such a tough time coping with adolescence that they go their separate ways. Neither wants to call it a breakup, but that's what it seems to be. Heartsick, they throw themselves into their magical studies. But Nita's work is cut short by bad news: Her mother has cancer, and it looks incurable-by medical or magical means. Even wizardry is powerless against cancer.
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A Wizard Alone
The Sixth Book in the Young Wizards Series
Diane Duane
0152049118 Trade Paperback
0152045627 Hardcover
0152055096 Digest
Ages: 12 and up
While Nita grieves over her mother's death, Kit tackles a challenge as dangerous as it is strange: Rescue a young wizard who has vanished on his first assignment. This new wizard is unlike any other-he's autistic and he's a magical prodigy. His power is enormous. Now Kit and his dog, Ponch, must track down the missing boy before the Lone Power finds him.
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Wizard's Holiday
The Seventh Book in the Young Wizards Series
Diane Duane
0152052070 Trade Paperback
0152047719 Hardcover
Ages: 12 and up
Rest and relaxation-that's what Nita thinks she's going to get when her little sister, Dairine, signs her up for a wizardly "cultural exchange" program, but nothing about wizardry-not even vacation-is ever quite that simple.
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Diane Duane's Box of Wizardry
Diane Duane
0152045821 Boxed Set/Slip Cased/Casebound
Ages: 12 and up
Magic comes in many shapes and sizes . . . such as this box of the first three titles in Diane Duane's bespelling, bestselling, compulsively readable Young Wizards series. Now So You Want to Be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, and High Wizardry are available in one handsome package, perfect for gift giving.
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