The Wizard's Oath

Now, If you have at least read the first book in the young wizards series you will know that there is a wizards oath. Nita and Kit both had to take this oath to become wizards...

The Wizard's Oath

In Life's name and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone, rejecting all other usages. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; and I will change no object or creature unless its growth and life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will put aside fear for courage, and death for life, when it is right to do so -- till Universe's end.

Nita and Kit

Meet Nita and Kit

You could pass either of them in the street and never notice them. They'd look just like any other kids living in the suburbs of a big American city. Even if you stopped and talked to them, they wouldn't seem different from anybody else. And once upon a time, they weren't -- till suddenly, without any warning, the magic came looking for them.

Nita Callahan is thirteen, a little lonely, the one the other kids call a geek and have fun beating up because she doesn't see the point in fighting back. But she's quick on the uptake, and has the guts to believe the incredible...so when she's in the local library and discovers a mysterious book entitled So You Want to Be a Wizard?, she doesn't hesitate. She takes the book home, takes the Wizard's Oath it offers her, and within hours finds herself in the middle of the Ordeal that every potential wizard must pass.

Kit Rodriguez is small for his age, smartmouthed, tired of being picked on but kind of resigned to it...a kid who thinks that friendship mostly happens to other people. But when Kit finds the Wizard's Manual in a used bookstore, he takes the Oath in a New York minute and gets right to work building his first spell -- never suspecting how much more it's going to give him than just what he asked for.

Together Kit and Nita will find their way into the creepy darkness of an alternate Manhattan, down into the depths of the ocean, far out into space, and to places stranger still as they practice the art of wizardry.

Introduction

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If you are here you must be a somewhat fan of the young wizards series by Diane Duane.
Nita and Kit on their Wizard adventures...

The books:
1. so you want to be a wizard
2. Deep Wizardry
3. High Wizardry
4. A Wizard Abroad
5. The Wizard's Dilemma
6. A Wizard Alone
7. Wizard's Holiday
8. Wizards at War
9. A Wizard of Mars

Description of So You Want to be a Wizard:

Thirteen-year-old Nita Callahan finally finds a way to get back at the notorious school bullies, Joanne and her gang, when she discovers a library book on the art of wizardry. She hardly dares to believe the book's claim that she too can become a wizard if she's willing to take the Wizard's Oath and undergo the danger of a wizard's initiation, the Ordeal. But to her astonishment and delight, her new Wizard's Manual is telling her the truth. While practicing her first spells, Nita meets Kit Rodriguez, another young wizard, and starts working with him to find a solution to her bullying problem.

What they get, though, doesn't look much like a solution. Kit and Nita suddenly find themselves dealing with a "white hole" named Fred, who's arrived on Earth with an urgent message regarding the mystical Book of Night with Moon. The Book is missing...and has to be found quickly if dire things aren't going to start happening to the Earth.

It's not long before the search for the bright Book leads Nita and Kit to a deadly alternate Manhattan, where they encounter man-eating helicopters, vicious packs of killer cabs, and the terrible wolflike perytons, which attack them at every turn. Despite the danger, Kit and Nita are determined to rescue the Book of Night with Moon from the lair of the dragon who presently possesses it. But can they keep it out of the clutches of the Lone Power, the ancient darkness cast out long ago from the heart of the worlds?...

This book is a challenging one for teens. Fun and excitement in the world of magic.