So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards, #1)

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Nita Callahan is at the end of her rope because of the bullies who ve been hounding her at school until she discovers a mysterious library book that promises her the chance to become a wizard But she has no idea of the difference that taking the Wizard s Oath is going to make in her life Shortly, in company with fellow beginner wizard Kit Rodriguez, Nita s catapulted into what will be the adventure of a lifetime if she and Kit can both live through it For every wizard s career starts with an Ordeal in which he or she must challenge the one power in the universe that hates wizardry than anything else the Lone Power that invented death and turned it loose in the worlds Plunged into a dark and deadly alternate New York full of the Lone One s creatures, Kit and Nita must venture into the very heart of darkness to find the stolen, legendary Book of Night with Moon Only with the dangerous power of the wizardly Book do they have a chance to save not just their own lives, but their world New Download eBook So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards, #1) by Diane Duane – kino-fada.fr So you want to stop being bullied, you just want some time to yourself, to read, to do what you want to do, to even make a friend maybe You find a book and it tells you how Your book will take you places Dealing with bullies after reading this book becomes such a small thing Being the person you want to be and doing the things you want to do is so muchimportant So you want to learn how to do wizardly things, talk to trees and suchlike, make things happen, meet new beings, maybe find th So you want to stop being bullied, you just want some time to yourself, to read, to do what you want to do, to even make a friend maybe You find a book and it tells you how Your book will take you places Dealing with bullies after reading this book becomes such a small thing Being the person you want to be and doing the things you want to do is so muchimportant So you want to learn how to do wizardly things,...Why yes, yes I do.Based on the title, I expected something rather light and possibly silly What I got was somethingsubstantial, an old middle grade book YA book that suddenly had me recalling A Wrinkle in Time and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Somehow I missed this one when I was younger, which is too bad An enthusiastic review from a friend thanks, Allie alerted me to this deficiency and I decided to rectify it She strolled between shelves, looking at titles, smiling as she met old frie Why yes, yes I do.Based on the title, I expected something rather light and possibly silly What I got was somethingsubstantial, an old middle grade book YA book that suddenly had me recalling A Wrinkle in Time and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Somehow I missed this one when I was younger, which is too bad An enthusiastic review from a friend thanks, Allie alerted me to this deficiency and I decided to rectify it She strolled between shelves, looking at titles, smiling as she met old friends books she had read three times or five times or a dozen Just a title, or an author s name, would be enough to summon up happy images Strange creatures like phoenixes and psammeads, moving under smoking London daylight of a hundred years before starships and new worlds and the limitless vistas of interstellar night Nita, short for Juanita, is regularly bullied and abused by neighborhood kids, finding herself almost helpless to prevent it As she is running away, she darts into the library for safet...This is sort of an American, dark and urban version of Harry Potter While browsing shelves at the library, Nita discovers a book with the title So You Want to Be a Wizard She takes it as a joke, but it turns out to be the real deal The spells work and she actually is learning to be a wizard.It turns out that this is the way wizards are trained Their textbooks seek out those with the talent Nita soon finds another wizard named Kit and they go on a really twisted and somewhat scary adventure This is sort of an American,...The perfect fantasy novel there you are in the library, and you pick up one particular bookI love Kit and Nita as they struggle with being sloppy and working around their parents as young wizardsDear Artificer, I ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place I m so glad that I decided to re read So You Want to Be a Wizard as part of my self imposed book challenge for this year I d almost forgotten how much I love this book In fact, I love it so much that I almost couldn t read it again At first, I would read a couple of pages and have to put the book down because I d get all teary and junk Not because it s sad although it does have its moments , but because I would remember how muDear Artificer, I ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place I m so glad that I decided to re read So You Want to Be a Wizard as part of my self imposed book challenge for this year I d almost forgotten how much I love this book In fact, I love it so much that I almost couldn t read it again At first, I would read a couple of pages and have...The magic and wizardry content in this book was just too strange It s totally possible to write about things that are different from what we experience in this world, but to write them in a way that you understand what s going on In this book, though she uses analogies that don t help make things any clearer When I stopped reading, for example, the 2 young wizards are creating a ...When the young readers in my acquaintance complain that there aren tHarry Potter books to read, I like to suggest this series.I usually start the campaign with a few questions to get them interested What if kid wizards couldn t tell their families about their powers What if they had to risk their lives in secret to keep the world safe I find the pre teen and teen characters in this series to be muchengaging and realistic than the self centered, clueless and common sense lacking c When the young readers in my acquaintance complain that ...Reading this book, I wished I could time travel I would hand this book to my younger self, when I was Nita s age Because much as I liked this book as an adult, I know that if I d first read this in middle school, I would have loved it.It is a good book, a very good book I take nothing away from Duane, because I think she hit every mark nearly perfectly And I did enjoy reading it, even if I m not hooked Her system of magic is interesting, basically talking the world into do...I started reading this book for the first time when I was grade 8 and I couldn t really get into it I ve finally figured out why.I m reading it again because it was in my house and I needed something to read, and the dialogue feels forced and VERY dated It s almost a condescending mockery of how kids talk The ideas in it are really interesting, but they re described by thirteen year olds who talk like little kids, instead of adults, so the magic is being sucked out of well the magic An I started reading this book for the first time when I was grade 8 and I couldn t really get into it I ve finally figured out why.I m reading it again because it was in my house and I needed something to read, and the dialogue feels forced and V...GODDAMMIT DIANE DUANE STOP PUNCHING ME IN THE HEART It s a children s book, they said It s like Harry Potter but in America, they said.You ll have a good time, they said.THEY ALL LIED I M NOT CRYING YOU RE CRYING There was a time when this book was about a girl, Nita, getting bullied at school and having her pen stolen and this was the happy fun times This book becomes so muchwhen she hides in a library and finds a book about wizardry A book that materialized there just for her to di GODDAMMIT DIANE DUANE STOP PUNCHING ME IN THE HEA...

So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards, #1)
  • English
  • 05 March 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 323 pages
  • 0152047387
  • Diane Duane
  • So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards, #1)