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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I read this during vacation, so I had a lot of time. I would ussually take a while to read for me, a ten year old. As I began, I couldn't put it down! I read of the adventures of Kit and Nita as they found, by accident, Fred the white hole; And tryed to get out of a land where there were no humans, only cars and machines with minds. Humans cannot survive in this land! To find out what happened in this great book, read it! (obviously)
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Summary: One of the best books in the entire UNIVERSE!!!!
Review: This is the first and (in my opinion) the best in Diane Duane's Wizardry series. Nita, a thirteen year old victim of teasing bullies, finds, or I should say, IS found by, a book in the library called "So You Want to be a Wizard." Nita thinks it's just a joke, Until she takes the wizards' Oath to preserve peace and slow the end of the Universe. Then she meets Kit, who is also a young wizard. Together accidentally call Fred, a white hole, and equally accidentally fall into a world where no humans can li
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Summary: You'll want to be a wizard to.
Review: So you want to be a wizard is the most amazing book i've ever encounterd.It's witty it's fun its touching. It will always be 10 out of ten for me.
And I'd bet my life savings you'l love it to. It's a rocking rollercoaster of fun adventure and mischief Diane Duane will have you on the edge of your seat with suspense. Will Nita and Kit ever survive their ordeal? Will you ever manage to put the book down for even a microsecond. I doupt you will but theres only one way to find out.
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Summary: Excellent first fantasy for Y/A, 1st of a trilogy
Review: This is the first of 3 books aimed at the Young Adult market and beautifully written. Ms. Duane manages to capture not only the wonder of pre-teen discovery, but capture the hearts of most adults in this novel.
Our two young heros discover that being careful what you wish for is very important -- as you just might get it!
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Summary: Young Wizards Afoot
Review: One of the fantasies that many children have is to have power. This fantasy is particularly strong when children are in elementary school and they so often feel powerless. Juanita (Nita) Callahan and Christopher (Kit) Rodriguez fall into this category perfectly. Kit has been advanced a couple of grades in school, so he is teased for his intelligence and his size. Juanita tends to speak her mind, which frequently gets her in trouble with the supposedly cool crowd.Juanita is in the library one day, hiding out from the ever-present bullies, when she runs across a book titled "So You Want to Be a Wizard." At first Nita wonders whether the book is some sort of joke, or fictional. After she reads the Wizard's Oath, she soon discovers that the book is remarkable in how it keeps itself up-to-date as world information and the skill level of its reader changes. Nita also discovers that she has become a wizard. Nita soon meets Kit, and finds that she is not the only wizard in the world. One of the first requirements of being a wizard is to go on an Ordeal, which is typically of a level of difficulty that matches the power of the wizards involved. In this case, Nita and Kit are quite powerful and they go up against the Lone One in a world he made to prevent the Lone One from unmaking the entire universe, the Lone One being the equivalent of Satan. In the course of trying to keep the level of entropy in the universe at the lowest level possible, and keeping the Lone One from unmaking the universe, Kit and Nita find themselves in situations where they risk death. At one point in the book it is only through the sacrifice of two remarkable beings that Kit and Nita survive their sojourn into the Lone One's world. While Diane Duane wrote this story about children in elementary school, I feel that it is a very mature story in many ways. This story does have a number of intense moments and may be unsuitable for some children under the age of 8 or 9. Additionally, Diane's vocabulary may present an additional hurdle for some ages. However, the story does not treat children as creatures to be protected by adults, and the children find that they do have power. One balance Diane brought into the book is an extremely strong code of ethics. Wizards must behave very morally or bad things can happen to them. This book is a worthy introduction to the Young Wizards series and an enjoyable read.
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Summary: Do You Believe?
Review: What would happen if all of a sudden, you were searching through some plain, old books in a library and you found a book titled, "So You Want to be a Wizard"? Would you pick it up and read it or consider it a joke? Well, Nita Callahan finds herself in this position. As she skims through it quickly, as it is getting late, she discovers her name listed as one of the potential wizards, so she checks out the book and brings it home? While reading the book, she discovers the Wizard's Oath, which she secretly recites....Along the way, she meets two special people and goes on a terrific ans thrilling adventure? What happens, you'll have to read it for yourself!I thought this book was excellent. I have read other books by Diane Duane, which are equally exceptional. I would recommend this book to people who love the fantasy genre because it is full to the max with it! Duane incorporates explicit detail with a wonderful story line...So go out and get it!
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Summary: So you want to be a wizard
Review: This book is great and really magical. It's about these two kids who discover a whole new world then the one they know. My kids enjoyed Harry Potter, and this book is just as good, but it shows this different magic. A magic that is more usuall unlike the one in Harry Potter. We really enjoyed this book, and all the other in the series.
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Summary: Much Much Much better than Harry Potter
Review: A recently reread the first three books of this series for at least the third time. I still remeber the first time I read them as a "reading vacation" looking for something very light, I thought it a YA book, and I guess you can read it that way, at least the first one, but... The underlying metaphor can get very deep, engrossingn and thought provocing. A great I thoughouly enjoy these books!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Unnatural dialogue, forced plot, clumsy writing. A good idea poorly executed. This can't be compared to Harry Potter even a little! Also annoying characters...and the idea that they would risk so much to get back a pen! Ugh...save your money. I can't believe this series has continued for so long.
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Summary: very happy it was recommended to me...
Review: My mom recommeded this series to me a while ago, and I'm glad she did. I'm reading the series a bit out of order, but I'm still enjoying it. This is the first book in the series. It begins with Nita, a thirteen-year-old girl who has the misfortune of being beat up a lot by a bully. While hiding in the library, Nita comes across a book called _So You Want To Be a Wizard_. The book gets her on the road to becoming a wizard. In the process, she meets Kit, another young wizard-in-training. There are probably other people who've explained the book better than I ever could, so I'm not going to bother. I really enjoyed this book, because all the characters and their magic seemed so real to me. Also, the author designed some of her world's "rules" with people like me in mind: early on, Nita reads that one good sign of a potential wizard is that the person can't go to sleep without reading something first. Since this book was enough to make me wish magic were real, those lines made me smile. Hey, I can dream, can't I? I highly recommend this series and book to everyone, young and old.
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