Cricket Readers Recommend

These books are fantastic. The first book is about a 13-year-old girl named Nita Callahan, who finds a book in her library titled So You Want to Be a Wizard. In it are all the rules to being a wizard, and what it's like. It says:

"Wizards love words. Most of them read a good deal, and indeed one strong sign of a potential wizard is the inability to get to sleep without reading something first. But their love for and fluency with words is what makes wizards a force to be reckoned with. Their ability to convince a piece of the world--a tree, say, or a stone--that it's not what it thinks it is, that it's something else, is the very heart of wizardry."

If you find the book, usually it means you are a good person to be a wizard. To become one, you take the Wizard's Oath. So Nita takes the Wizard's Oath and is soon sent on Ordeal. Ordeal is when a young wizard goes up against the Lone Power (He's sort of like satan. He created death and entropy, the process of the world ending) and tries to beat him.

This book is wonderful, and the rest of the series just gets better. If you want to read them, I'd suggest going to the website.