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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0152012079
ISBN-13: 9780152012076
May 1999
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
339 pages
Grade:
From 7 to 9
Reprint
Wizardry Series, Books 4
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Nita's parents, hoping to make her take a vacation from magic and from Kit, her partner in wizardry, send Nita on a month-long visit to stay with her aunt Annie in Ireland. Nita shortly discovers that the country is pulsing with magic, magic that is becoming dangerous to non-wizards and potentially lethal to everyone. With the help of Ronan, a local wizard who Nita has a crush on, she tries to figure out what to do. Before long, she finds herself involved in a magical battle against the legends and monsters of Irish mythology. This is the fourth book in the exciting Young Wizards series., Sent on vacation to her aunt's home in Ireland, teenage wizard Nita becomes entangled in a magic battle to save the country from the ghosts of its past.
| Details | | Series: | Wizardry Series, Books 4 |
| Size | | Length: | 339 pages | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Nita first found out about what was going to happen when she came in after a long afternoon's wizardry with Kit. They had been working for three days in an attempt to resolve a territorial dispute among several trees. It isn't easy to argue with a tree."
Industry Reviews
Gr 5-8 Nita Callahan, a 14-year-old wizard from Long Island, is annoyed when her concerned parents ship her off to Ireland for six weeks on an enforced vacation from magic-working and her partner Kit but what's time or space to wizards (see So You Want to Be a Wizard [1996] and its sequels [all Harcourt]). In any case, Ireland is hardly the ideal spot for a magic-free getaway, and indeed Nita soon finds herself involved in big doings. With the ancient harvest festival of Lughnas d approaching, signs point to a major attack from the malicious Lone Power, the very inventor of Death, in its guise as Balor of the Evil Eye. The assembled wizards of Ireland have but one hope: to find or re-create the Four Treasures of the Tuatha de Danaan, said in ancient stories to have helped defeat Balor once before. Moving easily between light, everyday language and the sonorous formality of high fantasy, Duane seamlessly interweaves encounters with creatures from legend with glimpses of modern Irish life and teen culture. Her view of magic's place in the scheme of things is so clever and well reasoned that readers will have no trouble suspending belief. Nita is an appealingly hot-tempered teenager who faces slavering dire wolves and trollish drows with more courage than the dismaying realization that she's gotten "the hots" for young fellow wizard Ronan. Balor's appearance in the climactic battle is all too brief, but against this army of wizards, it never stands a chance. At least in retrospect. An unusually consistent fantasy, rich in details, subplots, and Irish lore. John Peters, New York Public Library
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