Chatterbox: Blab About Books

Young Wizards
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So, as said, this is about the series Young Wizards, by Diane Duane. It's a really good series about a girl who becomes a wizard. Here's a little about So You Want to Be a Wizard from the back of the book:

The sun on her face woke Nita up as usual. Someone, her mother probably, had come in late last night to cover her up and take the dishes away. She turned over slowly, stiff but not in too much pain, and felt the hardness under her pillow. Nita sat up and pulled the book out, felt around for her glasses. The book fell open in her hand at the listing for the wizards in the New York metropolitan area, which Nita had glanced at the afternoon before. Now she looked down the first column of names, and her breath caught.

 

CALLAHAN, Juanita L., 

Hempstead, NY

 (novice, pre-rating)

 

Her mouth fell open. She shut it.

I'm going to be a wizard! she thought.

 

Then, there's this part, that tells a little about being a wizard. It comes from the Wizards Manual that Nita finds.

 

Wizards love words. Most of them read a great 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. Words skillfully used, the persuasive voice, the persuading mind, are the wizard's most basic tools. With them a wizard can stop a tidal wave, talk a tree out of growing, or into it, freeze fire, bum rain -- even slow down the death of the Universe.....

A wizard's business is to conserve energy -- to keep it from being wasted. On the simplest level this includes such unmagical-looking actions as paying one's bills on time, turning off the lights when you go out, and supporting the people around you in getting their lives to work. It also includes a great deal more.

 

Yeah, as I said, really good books. Funny and, in the readers' opinions, better than Harry Potter, but, that's your decision. 

 

submitted by Laura, age 11, Anchorage AK
(November 29, 2008 - 9:34 pm)

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Oh..those sound cool...Tongue out  I've never heard of them.

submitted by Claire B., age 10, Princeton, WI
(November 30, 2008 - 2:13 pm)

Nothing about wizardry, in my opinion, is better than Harry Potter, but it sounds like a good read.

P.S. Sounds like I'm a wizard!

submitted by Ezmeralda Z., age 11, Al
(November 30, 2008 - 2:15 pm)

Well, I don't think you're quite a wizard. To become one, you have to say the Wizard's Oath, and to do hat, you need a manual. It comes in different forms, from books titled So You Want to Be a Wizard, to laptop computers that's Apple sign is missing the bit out of it. It differs.

submitted by Laura, age 12, Alaska
(January 3, 2009 - 10:42 pm)

Well, then I suggest you read them. You'd be surprised... they're awesome, especially the seventh... google it to see what I'm talking about. It's titled Wizard's Holiday.

submitted by Laura, age 12, Alaska
(December 27, 2008 - 4:46 pm)

I read Wizard's Holiday! I loved it, and plan to read more in the series.

submitted by Ima
(July 5, 2009 - 10:49 am)