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by Diane Duane (Author) "IN THE BRIGHT LIGHT of an early spring morning, a teenage girl in faded blue jeans and a cropped white T-shirt stood in her downstairs..." (more)
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Grade 5-8–In this eighth volume in the series, 14-year-old wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan have just returned from an extraterrestrial vacation and are getting ready to go back to school. Meanwhile, Nita's wizardly younger sister, Dairine, and their father have been hosting three alien wizards in their basement. Everything changes when the magical group learns that the universe is rapidly filling with a mysterious dark matter that threatens to swallow all of the stars and worlds into oblivion within a few weeks. It is already causing the adult wizards to lose their powers, and even to forget that magic exists. Kit, Nita, Dairine, and their alien guests, along with Kit's magical dog, Ponch, and Dairine's enchanted laptop, Spot, zip off to scour the galaxy for a prophesied secret weapon–a person or thing that can overcome the impending catastrophe. Although Duane has tried to allow each book in the series to stand on its own, most readers will be lost without having read at least some of the predecessors. Those who are familiar with the series will thoroughly enjoy this story, especially its grand and wistful conclusion.–Walter Minkel, New York Public Library
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Gr. 5-8. The youthful wizards Kit and Nita preceded the trainees of Hogwarts by more than a decade, and they are still clobbering the forces of Death in the name of the Powers That Be. In this eighth volume of Duane's Young Wizards adventures, the Lone One has corrupted the basic structure of reality, causing the universe to expand and all wizards past "latency"--in other words, grown-ups--to lose their abilities, leaving it to the kids to prevent cataclysm. The novel is overlong and densely crammed with bewildering jargon, but the basic plot strands are compelling, particularly one set among a hive society reminiscent of Orson Scott Card's buggers. Even early series fans who have since outgrown Duane's particular brand of pseudoscientific mysticism may be attracted by the cameo appearances of previous books' characters and references to past story lines. The full-cast-reunion aspect prevents this from standing alone, but keep the overall series in mind for Harry Potter buffs whose interests are broad enough to allow them to easily move between Rowling's genteel, mock-Eton fantasy and traditional sf. Jennifer Mattson
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Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 560 pages
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books (October 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0152047727
ISBN-13: 978-0152047726
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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Lone One, Lone Power, Great One, One's Champion, Spear of Light, Lady Miril, Local Group, Senior Wizards, Transcendent Pig

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So You Want to Be a Wizard: The First Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane in Front Matter
High Wizardry: The Third Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane in Front Matter
A Wizard Abroad: The Fourth Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane in Front Matter
Deep Wizardry: The Second Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane in Front Matter

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4.0 out of 5 stars So this is the first review, huh? :), September 14, 2005

By	S. Christensen "reveuse" (Boise, ID United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been waiting for someone to review this book for a while now, but I broke down and bought it so maybe I'm going to have to start the ball rolling.

First of all, this is a series book so I'd better give a little background.

Nita Callahan hid in a library once when she was thirteen and found a special book there...a manual of wizardry. For the Powers that created life, the Powers that Be, sometimes need a little help in preserving and defending life against the Lone Power that brought entropy and death into the universe. And that is why there are wizards. Together, Nita and her fellow-wizard Kit Rodriguez passed the ordeal that made them wizards. Somehow, they've survived underwater adventures, the cataclysmic Ordeal of Nita's sister, Dairine, wizardry on assignment in Ireland, losing the fight for Nita's mother's life, the depths of grief, and dealing with the Power that almost destroyed the paradise Nita and Kit went on a vacation in.

No sooner do they get back to earth, though, then the local Seniors, Tom and Carl, stop by to drop the biggest bomb ever: something is splitting the universe apart at the seams, wizardry itself is failing, and Nita, Kit, and a few selected others are (for the time-being) in charge of keeping the Earth running! Now even the youngest and most powerful wizards have only a few weeks to find a fix for the problem. It's up to Nita, Kit, Dairine, and the new friends visiting the Callahans' house on exchange to scour the ends of the universe for the answers. They will follow any clue, risk any danger, and pay any price to beat the odds against them, because all of existence as they know it depends on it...

If there's another book in the series this reminds me most of, it's High Wizardry. And this book has all of what makes this series worth reading. A few highlights:

-Irish wizard Ronan Nolan reappears
-Carmela's mail-order package comes in very handy :)
-Dairine meets the parents
-Nita talks to wizardry itself and creates a new spell
-Ponch talks to a big, big bug
-Chocolate (Read it. You'll understand!)
-The Crossings invaded and taken
-Enchanted cell-phones and Wiz-pods
-Kit at a loss for words at least three or four different times, all for different reasons
and...
-The secret of the strange wizardry leakage at Kit's home is revealed...but only at a haunting price.

I laughed, I cried, and I loved it. Maybe you will too!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A parent's view of Wizards at War, October 25, 2005

By	H. Chambers (Northern California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm a teen's mom. I've read the other books in this series as my teen son did. This book brings in characters from earlier books, so I would NOT recommend that this book be the first read in the series. This book, along with the earlier books involves ethics. This is all too rare in teen's choices in reading. Each wizard, sometime as a child, was offered an opportunity to take the Wizard's Oath, then submit to an ordeal. This is when a wizard has the most raw power available - untempered yet by experience and need for control. Adults are brought into the books as Senior Wizards, mentors for the children. It is a wonderful way of explaining why the children are asked to save or mend parts of the universe when adults cannot. In this book, the stakes are even higher. The adults forget their magic in an evolving crisis with the whole universe at stake. All young wizards, from earth and far away galaxies, as well as other species such as cats and whales get involved. Some of the characters that were important in earlier books are prepared to give their lives for this battle. Some do, some are transformed in some very interesting twists. As each book ended, I wondered how the author could top that book. And then, I was delighted by the next book written, as was true this time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't compare this with Harry Potter; it's completely different., November 18, 2005

By	shadodantz "shadodantz" (Billings Mt) - See all my reviews

Just because there is 'magic' involved, this series has been compared with that of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter. That is too simplistic a comparison (rather like comparing Bram Stoker's Dracula to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's le Comte de Saint-Germain).
Though both series have magic as a force extant in the real world, how it is used is completely different.
Ms Rowling's characters use it mostly as a convenience, while for Ms Duane's characters it is more of a tool to accomplish very difficult tasks that (hopefully) slow down the progression of entropy.
Big difference there.
I won't try to summarize this book, don't want to put in spoilers. It has more subplot than its predeccessors, with relationships between the various characters becoming more complex. The original Kit/Nita dynamic, while strong as ever, moves upstage a bit, making way for the newer, sometimes spiky combinations of Dairine/Roshaun, Kit/Ponch, Kit/Carmela, Ronan/'Michael', Carmela/Ronan, and Nita as reluctant, inadvertant sporadic 'foreteller' and Greek chorus.
There is the expected (at least for me) laugh-out-loud scenes that come without warning when Ms. Duane turns things on their ear, as well as the shivers-and-tears-in-the-eyes scenes that aren't necessarily sad. There is loss. There is joy. There is growth, and redemption, and surprise, and determination...and there is also more than a hint that there will be another story in this series.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Saving the Universe once again
Duane's young teenage wizards, Nita Callahan and Kit Rodriguez, are gradually developing into the foremost champions of the Powers That Be, having battled the Lone... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Chrijeff

5.0 out of 5 stars The YW series is great!
So, I've been reading Diane Duane's book for a year or so and I really like them. I loved this one because old characters and new characters are meshed together. Read more

Published 8 months ago by A. Lara

5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping. Heartbreaking. Magnificent.
*WARNING:This review does contain spoilers.Read at your own discretion.* I have read all of the Young Wizards books,and every one of them was wonderful. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Gwen O' Connell

4.0 out of 5 stars The Universe will End soon ... unless the Young wizards can stop it.

Unlike Previous young wizards books this one picks up hours after the previous one, and for that reason can't stand alone. Read more

Published 16 months ago by Konrad Zielinski

4.0 out of 5 stars wizards at war
The eighth book of the Young Wizards series is as exciting as the other seven. The story continues from #7 with the visiting wizards still on Earth and the impending threat from... Read more

Published on June 8, 2007 by R. Boucher

5.0 out of 5 stars Wizards at War was Wonderful
First of all, I loved this book! It was, by far, the best book in the series, although i believe that the rest of the series led up to this book extremely well... Read more

Published on March 7, 2007

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent installment of a fun, well-written series
Wizards at War is the eighth installment in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. Weighing in at a hefty 560 pages, this book is not for the faint of heart. Read more

Published on August 21, 2006 by Jennifer Robinson

5.0 out of 5 stars An Expanded Role
Wizards at War (2005) is the eighth novel in the Young Wizards series, following Wizard's Holiday. In the previous volume, Nita, Kit and Ponch go on excursus to Alaalu and three... Read more

Published on May 26, 2006 by Arthur W. Jordin

5.0 out of 5 stars Young Wizards Fight
The young wizards series of books has had its ups and downs. With this book, the eighth in the series, Diane Duane has written a book to equal the first books in the series... Read more

Published on April 6, 2006 by Lonnie E. Holder

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