Juanita Callahan is hiding from bullies in the library when she discovers a book titled So You Want to be a Wizard from which she disbelievingly takes a Wizard's Oath. When she wakes up Nita's name is included on a list of wizards in the back of the book, so she decides to try out her new powers. She meets Christopher Rodriguez--Kit--another new wizard testing his power. The two conjure an alternate Manhattan with a dangerous power-hungry darkness. Their call for help brings an intelligent white hole nicknamed Fred.
The three wizards work together to retrieve a space pen the bullies have stolen from Nita, but Fred mistakes the gravity needed and swallows it. The trio meet their local Advisories who explain how to retrieve Nita's pen. Fred also brings news of two important books, one of which is missing. "The Book of Night with Moonlight" catalogues the true nature of everything, it's mirror is a catalogue of all things perverted "The Book Which is Not Named". If the darkness which Kit and Nita met when Fred appeared, the Lone Power, were to read from the unnamed Book while the Book of Night with Moon is missing the world would be irreparably altered.
In their quest to retrieve Nita's pen from inside Fred, the three wizards fall through a world gate into the alternate New York where Nita and Kit first met the Lone Power. The alternate world is shadowed in the Lone Power's evil. In order to return home Nita, Kit, and Fred search for the two books and are faced with dragon-like creatures, an eight-legged skull-faced beast, the destruction of the Sun, and the loss of a good friend.
So You Want to be a Wizard deals directly with the issue of good and evil. Kit and Nita find a friendship which helps them through the frustrations of public school and changing lives. Readers of all ages will enjoy the friendship between Kit and Nita as the discover themselves and their magic.
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