What happens when wizardry stops working? Can the end of the world as we know it be far behind? The young teen wizards Nita and her younger sister, Dairine, fellow wizard Christopher (Kit) Rodriguez, and his dog, Ponch find out in…

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Eleven-year-old Darryl is many things for being one so young.  He is a wizard undergoing an interminable Ordeal against the Satanic Lone One.  He is an abdal or Pillar, from whom power flows for all the other wizards of Earth,…

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The power of the Sea, loss, separation, the ability to use words to change reality, an apprentice wizard who happens to be a dog, koans spoken by koi; and a Transcendent Pig–these are just some of the magical things in…

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Fourteen-year-old Nita Callahan knows that being a wizard isn’t something to be taken lightly, and that a wizard is basically on call 24/7. If you’re needed, as a wizard you had a responsibility to respond to help out wherever you…

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Have you ever had a bratty little sister? How about one who is also super smart, making her even more difficult to deal with? Sisters or brothers like those are sometimes a pain to live with, but…

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The land isn’t the only place where wizards exist, as we find out in Diane Duane’s second fantasy novel in her Young Wizards series, Deep Wizardry – they also exist in the seas. Whales and other cetaceans, like dolphins, are…

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If you want to do something dull and boring, get yourself a book like Bookkeeping For Dummies or Internal Combustion Engines For Idiots and learn yourself a trade. If, however, you love reading hugely entertaining, page-turning fantasy novels,…

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Are you a teen vampire who has been permanently fifteen ever since you got fanged in 1973? Do you still live with your mother, who has continued to age, and is now in her 70′s? Does the thought and sight…

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