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High Wizardry

High Wizardry Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Diane Duane

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The first three novels in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, now in digest size for younger readers!

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title High Wizardry
  • Author Diane Duane
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 353
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G015204941XI4N00
  • ISBN 9780152049416 / 015204941X
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.56 x 5.04 x 1 in (19.20 x 12.80 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 7
  • Reading level 830
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Wizards
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001016694
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for a ten-year-old, she also 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--her Ordeal--Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy, trying to catch up with Dairine before she gets into trouble so deep that not even her brains can resuce her.

From the publisher

Diane Duane is the author of more then twenty science fiction and fantasy novels, including four other books in the Young Wizards series. Four of her Star Trek novels have been New York Times bestsellers. Ms. Duane lives in rural Ireland.

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"HEY, THERE'S SOMEBODY IN the driveway!

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Nita went white with shock at the sight of Dairine. Dairine didn't care. "You're going to tell me everything," she said, and ran down the beach to distract her parents just long enough for Nita and Kit-also just changed back from a whale-to get back into their bathing suits. And after the noisy, angry scene with their parents that followed, after the house was quiet, Dairine went to Nita's room, where Kit was waiting, too, and let them tell her the whole story.

Wizard's manuals, oaths, wizardry, spells, quests, terrible dangers beyond the world, great powers that moved unseen and unsuspected beneath the surface of everyday existence and every now and then broke surface-Dairine was ecstatic. It was all there, everything she had longed for. And if they could have it, she could have it too. . . .

Dairine saw their faces fall and felt the soft laughter of the world starting behind her back again. You couldn't have this magic unless you were offered it by the Powers that controlled it. Yes, sometimes it ran in families, but there was no guarantee that it would ever pass to you. . . .

At that point Dairine began to shut their words out. She promised to keep their secret for the time being and to cover for them the best she could. But inside she was all one great frustrated cry of rage: Why them-why them and not me! Days later, when the cry ebbed, the frustration gave way to blunt, stubborn determination. I'll have it. I will.

Copyright © 1990 by Diane Duane

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Media reviews

"Duane is tops in the high adventure business. . . . This rollicking yarn will delight readers."--Publishers Weekly

"High Wizardry is . . . high entertainment."--Locus

About the author

Diane Duane is the author of more then twenty science fiction and fantasy novels, including four other books in the Young Wizards series. Four of her Star Trek novels have been New York Times bestsellers. Ms. Duane lives in rural Ireland.

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