Books with title A Wizard Abroad

Long Island’s teen wizard returns in “an unusually consistent fantasy, rich in details, subplots, and Irish lore” from the author of High Wizardry (School Library Journal). To give fifteen-year-old Nita a vacation from magic—and her partner Kit—her parents pack her off for a stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But Nita soon finds herself with a host of Irish wizards battling mythical beings, wolves, and elves from a nightmare land. In Wizard Abroad, “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 (School Library Journal). “Exceptional.”—Science Fiction Chronicle “The series may be of particular interest to female readers as Nita and her younger sister are the focus of most of the books and they are strong female characters. If you’ve read the other Wizardry books, this fourth book in the series won’t disappoint you.”—SF Site Praise for the Young Wizards series “Duane is tops in the high adventure business . . . This rollicking yarn will delight readers.”—Publishers Weekly “High Wizardry is . . . high entertainment.”—Locus “Recommend this series to young teens who devour books about magic and wizards . . . or kids looking for ‘Harry Potter’ read-alikes.”—School Library Journal “Stands between the works of Diana Wynne Jones . . . and Madeleine L’Engle . . . An outstanding, original work.”—The Horn Book

Young Wizards Book 4: There's magic across the Atlantic!Nita Callahan's mom and dad are beginning to get the idea that she and her fellow wizard Kit Rodriguez are "spending a little too much time together". So, explaining that they want to give Nita a little vacation from wizardry, they pack her off for a month-long stay with her eccentric Aunt Annie at her farm in Ireland. But this turns out to have been a bad move on Nita's parents' part, since Ireland is even more steeped in magical doings than the United States.Nita, initially certain that she's going to be bored out of her mind, soon finds that the serene beauty of the Irish landscape is deceptive. The ghosts of men and beasts and other beings -- including what seem to be heroes, ancient gods, and even the Powers that Be -- confront her at every turn.Along with a group of Irish wizards, Nita and Kit (who joins her in Ireland) go to battle with the Lone Power in yet another of Its many forms. The fight's a personal one, as always. But this time there's more than usual at stake, as the ancient Enemy of life attempts to submerge the everyday Ireland in an older, more dangerous one: a place where human beings are fairy tales, and the legends and monsters of Celtic myth are a deadly reality....This 2011 International Editionis available for purchase by readers outside the US and Canada. (North American readers can obtain theor own region-specific ebook editions of A Wizard Abroad from Amazon.com.)A new revised edition of A Wizard Abroad, updated by the author and available to readers worldwide, will be released by Errantry Press in the second half of 2011. Please check DianeDuane.com for dates and other details.

It’s tough being a teenager and a wizard, as Nita, 14-year-old New Yorker, knows all too well. It’s even harder if your parents are obstinate. According to Nita’s folks, the whole wizard thing is getting way out of hand. They’ve decided that six weeks in the real world, on a horse farm in Ireland under the watchful eye of her Aunt Annie, will surely put their daughter back on the straight and narrow. But Ireland isn’t the safe, sensible spot that Nita’s parents imagine. In fact, it’s seething with wizardry. The ancient powers that created the Emerald Isle still traipse back and forth between the Irish present and Tir na nOg, the alternate reality they continued to inhabit after humans came. The result: they’ve opened up gaping holes in the walls that separate past, present, future and fantasy worlds. Before Nita can say sla’n (Gaelic for hello and goodbye), she’s careening between time periods like a silver ball in a pinball machine.

To give Nita a vacation from magic, Nita's parents pack her off for a month-long stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But Ireland is even thicker with magical doings than the United States, and Nita soon finds herself and a host of Irish wizards battling creatures from a nightmare Ireland, one in which humankind is the stuff of tales and storybooks and where the legends and monsters of the country's mythology are a deadly reality.