So You Want to Be a Wizard: The First Book in the Young Wizards Series

by Diane Duane

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Series (with order)

Young Wizards (Book 1)

Wizardry [Diane Duane] (1|Young Wizards 1)

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1983

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New York, New York, USA (Manhattan)

Dark Manhattan

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Nita Callahan

Kit Rodriguez

Fred (intelligent black hole)

the Eldest

the Lotus Esprit

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So You Want to Be a Wizard (20th): Twentieth-Anniversary Edition has an additional short story, Uptown Local. Please do not combine with the unmarked editions.

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Amazon.com (ISBN 0152012397, Paperback)

Ages 10 & up. In the spirit of Madeleine L'Engle's classic A Wrinkle in Time, this is a fascinating and powerfully involving story about two lonely kids who are inadvertently caught up in the never-ending battle between good and evil. The problems of everyday adolescent life and the mysteries of magic are perfectly blended, along with plenty of humor and suspense. In a starred review, School Library Journal wrote, "well-structured and believable... this fantasy should have wide appeal." Horn Book wrote, "a splendid, unusual fantasy... an outstanding, original work."

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