So you want to be a wizard / Diane Duane.
Material type: TextSeries: Duane, Diane. Young wizards series ; bk. 1.Publication details: Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 323 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0152047387 (Hardcover)
- 0152049401 (pbk.)
- 9780152047382 (Hardcover)
- 9780152049409 (pbk.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Duane Diane | 1 | Available | 33111007446079 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Long before wizards were a fixture on the bestseller lists, Kit and Nita were working magic with readers of all ages. So You Want to Be a Wizard is now available in a deluxe hardcover edition, featuring a new afterword from Diane Duane as well as the hard-to-find Kit and Nita short story "Uptown Local."
"20th Anniversary ed."
"Features a new afterword and the Nita and Kit story 'Uptown local'"--Cover.
"Uptown local" previously published in "Dragons and Dreams" edited by Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, published by Harper & Row.
Sequel: Deep wizardry.
Preliminary exercises -- Research and development -- Temporospatial claudications: use and abuse -- Exocontinual protocols -- Entropics: detection and avoidance -- Contractual magic: an introduction -- Major wizardries: termination and recovery -- Timeheart.
Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.