So you want to be a wizard is a book about two kids. It begins with Juanita Callahan as she is fleeing a group of bullies. She happens into the children’s section of the library. Once there she is reminiscing about all the days she spent there when she happens on a book she had never seen there before. This book is a little manual, like the other childrens books that share similar titles, called So you want to be a wizard. When she accepts the Wizards’ oath hidden in the book, Nita throws herself and her friend Kit into their ordeal. A test which all wizards receive when they first take the oath. Each wizard becomes a wizard because there is a problem in the world that they are the only solution for. Solving this problem typically involves going against the Lone Power the one who invented death. Once they pass this test and save…show more content… In The Young Wizards series Duane leads you on a journey though time and space, to far galaxies and then all the way back to earth’s oceans. She does this all while making the experiences of Nita and her partner Kit seem like personal shared experiences to the reader. Throughout these experiences Duane draws you into their joint struggles as they drift closer and farther apart and Nita questions her own desire to remain a wizard in the service of life and The One.
Duane is incredibly gifted not only in language but also in creativity as her books pour out many alien worlds and creatures. What other book would you find a white hole named Fred as a main character? She remains consistent with each alien in mindset, actions, habitat, and even down to diet. She builds them as if she had a living model to go off and it makes them feel alive and not wholly unbelievable. Her brilliant description of the world around Kit and Nita makes it real to the reader in a way many authors are unable to
