The young wizards book series by diane duane includes books so you want to be a wizard, deep wizardry, high wizardry, and several more. Kit rodriguez lay sprawled in the gray dirt, staring in shock at the fireblackened book that had just landed open side down in front of him. Diane duane young wizards series books 15 excellent lot set. Duane are some of the best and most inventive ideas ive read and reread and reread. Book three, high wizardry, is my favorite, i read it several years ago and it was just as thrilling the second time.
Every book has wizard or wizardry as part of its title. There is a total of 10 books in the young wizards series to date. Nita bent quickly over the book and with the pen, in lines of light, drew from the final circle an arrow pointing upward, the way out, the symbol that. Pdf the demon in the mirror war of the wizards trilogy. In the young wizards book series, the topical issues that are part of the novels include religion, sacrifice, death and redemption. Young wizards audiobooks listen to the full series. The newest entry in the young wizards series is a reunion for the series fans, though somewhat impenetrable to newcomers.
The third book in the young wizards series paperback. Young wizards series set 16 by diane duane, includes so you want to be a wizard, deep wizardry, high wizardry, a wizard abroad, the wizards dilemma, a wizard alone. Kit and nita are part of the wizarding expedition that accidentally wakes up the longsleeping martians. The fourth book in the young wizards series young wizards quality by diane duane 1 jun. Still smoking gently at its charred edges, the other wizards. The first book of this series is so you want to be a wizard. Secondary characters from earlier volumes cameo when wizards fight yet another impending apocalypse. Diane duanes young wizards is the fantasy book series. Young wizards series ebook by diane duane rakuten kobo. In the young wizards book series, the duo is often pitted against their nemesis in the form of the lone power. Nita is just looking for an escape from her bullies when she stumbles upon an odd book in the library. Read young wizards series the first three books by diane duane available from rakuten kobo. As for me, this book and the entire series of young wizard books by ms.
Proud past guest of honour at dublin2019, the world science fiction convention in dublin, ireland. The young wizards series presently consists of nine books, with a tenth in progress, focusing on the adventures of two young wizards named nita and kit. The book series belongs to the science fiction and fantasy genre. So starts the first book of the young wizards series, a sequence of eight so far books by diane duane written over the past twentysix years. So you want to be a wizard young wizards series book 1 by diane duane so you want to be a wizard young wizards series book 1 by diane duane something stopped nitas hand as it ran along the bookshelf. Young wizards is a series of young adult science fiction books by diane duane. His stomach flipflopped as he realized that very close by, another wizard lay dead. In the first book, entitled so you want to be a wizard, nita callahan meets up with christopher kit rodriguez, a twelveyearold living nearby who has also just taken up the wizardry oath, and the. Wizards at war 2005 is the eighth novel in the young wizards series, following wizards holiday.
The fact that im still reading them indicates that theyre pretty good. It was written in 1982 and published in the next year. Diane duane is best known for her young wizards series of ya fantasy novels featuring new yorkbased teen wizards kit rodriguez and nita callahan. So you want to be a wizard young wizards series book 1. While harry contended with voldemort and his minions, nita, kit, and dairine contend against the lone power, the creator of death and entropy. Kit rodriguez and nita callahan are the central characters featured in the young wizards book series by diane duane. Young wizards series in order diane duane fictiondb. The young wizards book series basically follow the adventures of an interesting teenage duo, kit, and nita, who happen to be wizards. The plot follows nita callahan, a thirteenyearold girl who discovers a book titled so you want to be a wizard while hiding from bullies in a library. So you want to be a wizard by diane duane goodreads.
See the complete young wizards series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. The longrunning series, now in its third decade, is perfect for fans of harry potter. Young wizards is an ongoing ya fantasy series, which i describe as my harry potter before i discovered harry potter. Young wizards by diane duane series overview no spoilers. Diane duane young wizards series books 15 excellent lot. Every 11 years, earths senior wizards hold the invitational. They follow nita and kit, a fourteen year old girl and a twelve year old boy who discover that they are wizards.
Diane duane is the author of more then twenty science fiction and fantasy novels, including four other books in the young wizards series. Ive reread the first 9 books, and now im gonna tell you all about em. The plot follows nita callahan, a thirteenyearold girl who discovers a book titled so you want to be a. It follows nita and kit, two young adult wizards who go from novices to experienced. From publishers weeklyas two young wizards embark on a mission to preserve the universe they encounter an eerie.
The wizards battle against entropy and chaos continues in this, the ninth book of diane duanes so you want to be a wizard series. The series began in 1983 with the book so you want to be a wizard, which told the story of their first experiences with wizardry. See all 30 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. So you want to be a wizard is the first book in the young wizards series currently consisting of eleven books by diane duane. Diane duanes young wizards series predates harry potter and takes a different tack to the notion of young adults with magical talent. The fourth book in the young wizards series paperback. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. Wizardly partners kit rodriguez and nita callahan, and nitas sister, former wizardprodigy dairine callahan, are drafted in to mentor two brilliant and difficult. In 1997, duane began a spinoff, the feline wizards series, which. Wont bore you with the lower levels as theyre no more scenic than this, and otherwise resemble the warehouse at the end of raiders of the lost ark except for a a lot fewer lost arks and b a lot more wizards. Pdf download wizards at war young wizards series book 8 read full ebook.
Most of the books also have thematic chapter titles. This is book number 1 in the young wizards series series. The second book in the young wizards series paperback. Young wizards fanfiction archive with over 562 stories. Spring 2011 1 hipparchus kit rodriguez lay sprawled in the gray dirt, staring in shock at the fireblackened book that had just landed open side down in front of him. In order to escape them, she entered the library and found the book so you want to be a wizard in the.
In the previous volume, nita, kit and ponch go on excursus to alaalu and three other wizards skerret the centipede, filif the tree and roshaun the humanoid king come to live in the callahan basement. Diane duane young wizards series 1 5 paperback book set. She looked and found that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. Games wizards play young wizards series diane duane p. Each novel pits nita and kit against the lone power, an entity ultimately bent on the destruction of the entire universe. The lone power is an entity that belongs to a larger evil group known as the powers that be. The young wizards series is the only series that ive ever been able to get past book three on ive read all nine. Something stopped nitas hand as it ran along the bookshelf. The young wizards series presently consists of eleven books, focusing on the adventures of two young wizards named nita and kit. The first novel in the young wizards series that features kit and nita was first written in the united states of america in 1982 and is called so you want to be a wizard. They are aimed at the young adult audience, written by an american, with a suburban new yorkish setting though actually the young wizards travel. Young wizards is a series of novels by diane duane.
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