Wizard Chase (The Wizards Trilogy, 1) [Paperback]

Rick Just (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Wizards Trilogy, 1 | Publication Date: October 15, 2002

At first glance Wizard Chase seems to be a juvenile fantasy in the Harry Potter vein where everything that's interesting happens by magic. But the more its hero learns the more he begins to suspect something else is going on here.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Author Rick Just has an imagination that rivals J.K. Rowling. -- Dr. Stan Steiner, "The Bookman"

Totally engaging for young readers. -- Midwest Book Review

Two wizard wands up for Wizard Chase. Highly recommended. -- The Review Zone

About the Author

Rick’s young adult fantasy/science fiction series is called The Wizards Trilogy. All three books, Wizard Chase, Wizard Girl, and Wizards' End, are now out in matching covers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 335 pages
• Publisher: Writers Collective; 2 edition (October 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971673454
• ISBN-13: 978-0971673458
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,637,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rick Just is a native Idahoan who grew up on a ranch along the Blackfoot River. He has served as editor of Boise State University's nationally acclaimed literary magazine, cold-drill. During Idaho's Centennial, Rick wrote and produce the official Centennial radio series, "Idaho Snapshots,' which aired daily on stations statewide. The program won the 1990 Governor's Take Pride in Idaho award in the media category and received a Certificate of Merit in the national Take Pride in America program in 1991. His book, Idaho Snapshots, contains about half the programs from the radio series. Many of those vignettes appeared in the 1995 book Idaho unbound, albeit without permission. Rick's novel Keeping Private Idaho came out in 1996. He is co-editor of the fourth edition of Letters of Long Ago, by Agnes Just Reid, which was published in 1997. His young adult books, Wizard Chase, and Wizard Girl are books one and two of the Wizards Trilogy. They were published in 2000 and 2001. The final book of the trilogy, Wizards' End was published in 2002. Rick was the editor of 100 Years, Idaho and its Parks the centennial history of Idaho's state parks system, which was published in 2008. He is a member of the Idaho Writers Guild.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A rich jewel of a series, June 29, 2003

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Dennis Meier (Boise, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wizard Chase (The Wizards Trilogy, Volume 1) (Paperback)

A rich jewel of a series: original, imaginative, and wonderfully crafted.

If, like me, your tastes in reading lean more towards sci-fi than fantasy, don't be deterred by the title of this terrific series, which begins when a young Idaho boy stumbles upon a hidden cave. Chasing his errant cat, he soon finds that the cave is a gateway to another world, Kimyra, where talking(!) cats are joined by such strange creatures as ribeks, wallacatoons, trolls, and gryphons in a battle between good and evil `wizards.'

For the Kimyrans, everything is explainable as `magic,' but thirteen year old Gerrald, a.k.a., `Jarrett' in Kimyran, is a bit of a skeptic, less amenable to accepting explanations involving the supernatural when nature is known to have more tricks up its sleeve than an army of wizards could conjure up in a lifetime of trying. But to get back to Earth, Gerrald will need all the `magic' he can muster to steal two jewel eyes that were stolen from a stone dragon by the evil wizard Mantigore.

Together, Wizard Chase, Wizard Girl, and Wizard's End make up one heck of a good tale.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wizard Chase, June 12, 2000

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Jess and Jenn (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wizard Chase (The Wizards Trilogy, Volume 1) (Paperback)

WIZARD CHASE is so marvelously written that it seemed to stretch fantasy into truth. It's a novel that pulls you in with it's power, so that once you start to read, you cannot put it down. It leaves the reader spellbound and hungry for the next adventure.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Overrated, January 26, 2007

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C. G. Weyhing "Guy who read a lot" (Baltimore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wizard Chase (The Wizards Trilogy, Volume 1) (Paperback)

I have no earthly idea why all three books in this series are rated as five stars. After being deceived by that I bought and read this book. It was OK, a bit amateurish, and rather derivative, with very few moments of originality. Granted, I am an adult, but there is much better juvenile sci-fi/ fantasy out there, like Cofler's Artemis Fowl series or Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series.