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Title: A Wizard Alone: The Sixth Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0152045627 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57
Rating: 5
Summary: As good as always
Comment: Read it in one day (not speedreading). Need I say more?
Rating: 4
Summary: The Story Rolls On!
Comment: A Wizard Alone is the delightful continuation of the SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD series. This is young adult fiction at its best! It is a wonderful romp through magic and wizardry with the same characters that readers have grown to love in the last five installments. The great thing about these books is the way Ms. Duane has woven reality in with her fantasy world. In these books people live real lives and sometimes die real deaths and the survivors have to deal with these realities. Magic can't replace a mother who is lost forever but friends and relatives can help with loving support. Part of this segment deals with Nita's loss and her struggle to win through the pain, another is Kit and Ponch furthering their own unique relationship as they delve into the mind of an autistic proto-wizard.
Great story, great writing! Highly recommended for the youth of all ages. Be aware that reading the first five books is not actually required but highly recommended if you want to get the full flavor of the continuing story.
Highly Recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Life Goes On, Especially For Wizards
Comment: A Wizard Alone is the sixth novel in the Young Wizards series, following The Wizard's Dilemma. In the previous volume, Nita's mother is diagnosed with a brain tumor and Nita searches for some way to cure the illness using wizardry, but to no avail. The Lone Power tries to tempt her into a pact, but Nita's mother herself intervenes to help Nita to deny the enemy. During this time, Kit is mostly ignored by Nita and spends his time observing his dog, Ponch, who is displaying remarkable abilities, including talents for walking between dimensions and for finding things.
In this book, Tom offers Kit an assignment to discover why a promising youngster, Darryl, hasn't completed his ordeal after three months. Normally young wizard candidates are left alone during their ordeal, but this candidate is unusual in that he is autistic, so his mental condition may have caused some hang-up. Tom wants Kit to only observe and interfere as little as possible. Kit watches Darryl at school from a distance at first, but soon he and Ponch slip into the classroom with an invisibility spell and Ponch helps Kit to get into Darryl's private universe. There they discover that Darryl seems to be perfectly normal in most respects, but is having encounter after encounter with the Lone Power. Kit also senses that Darryl has passed his ordeal some time ago, but doesn't know it. Moreover, this incarnation of the Lone Power seems to be frustrated for some reason.
Nita is having a hard time keeping her family from falling apart from grief after her mother's death, yet the struggle is helping her to keep herself functional. Initially her father hated to go to bed alone and now he hates to wake up in the bed alone. Her sister, Dairine, hates to go to school and face the pity of her peers. Everything reminds them of the missing member of the family. Nita is meeting regularly with a school counselor and benefiting from the chance to talk about her grief as well as some specific words of advice. Dairine, however, has been assigned a newly graduated counselor who apparently has expunged all memories of childhood and adolescent from her brain.
When Kit tries asks for her help as backup, Nita demurs since she is very uncertain of her stability at that moment. Nevertheless, Nita is having a series of strange dreams that appear to have something to do with Darryl. Then Nita tries to contact Kit, but he is unavailable at the moment; apparently he is in another universe at that time, so Nita reckons that he is walking the dimensions looking for Darryl. However, when Nita learns that Kit had traveled to Darryl's private universe in his sleep, she begins to worry that Kit is being overcome by Darryl's unusual powers and makes arrangements with Ponch -- the dog is able to talk to her telepathically -- to be notified the next time Kit visits Darryl. However, Kit is pulled away suddenly and Ponch barely has time to go with him.
This novel is another tale filled with real life concerns and relationships, especially between these young wizards and their respective sisters; I particularly enjoyed Carmela's reaction to the alien shopping channel on the magically enhanced TV. However, the wizardry is an integral part of the story; only a wizard could visit Darryl in his universe -- i.e., mind -- and probably only a wizard would have the strength and talents to create a normal enclave within his own autistic brain.
Recommended for Duane fans and anyone who enjoys young people discovering the universe, especially in a magical setting.
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Title: The Wizard's Dilemma: The Fifth Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0152024603 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: A Wizard Abroad: The Fourth Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0152162380 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Stealing the Elf-King's Roses by Diane Duane ISBN: 0446609838 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tale of the Five: The Sword and the Dragon by Diane Duane ISBN: 1892065517 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Book of Night With Moon by Diane Duane ISBN: 0446606332 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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