So You Want to Be a Wizard

Young Wizard Series, Book 1

By: Diane Duane

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Because she insists on fighting with words instead of her fists, 13-year-old Nita is regularly tormented by a gang of classmates. One day, running to escape their blows, she hides in the only safe place nearby: the library. When a book about wizardry catches her eye, Nita finds the help she needs in its pages. As she moves from chapter to chapter, Nita learns more sophisticated spells. Soon, stepping through a worldgate, she enters a shadowy city swirling with vicious taxicabs and carnivorous fireplugs. What begins as a simple quest quickly becomes a struggle to keep a powerful and ominous force from passing back into Nita's world.

Ranked with the best of Madeleine L'Engle and Diana Wynne Jones, Diane Duane's magical tale of wizardry and wisdom has become a modern fantasy classic. Christina Moore's delightful narration captures all the excitement and danger in this thrilling fantasy adventure.

You can listen to Diane Duane's entire Young Wizard series.

©1983 Diane Duane (P)2002 Recorded Books, LLC

Better than Harry Potter

If you liked the Harry Potter Books. You will love these books.
Only trouble I found with them. Is so far the author has only wrote
the frist 7 books in the series. I went throw them like wild fire!!!

Love this series!

so empowered! the story is very involved I could see the it in my mind eye listening to her. I know it is a young persons book but I really enjoyed it! I hope you do too!

Exquisitely done.

I bumped into this series entirely by accident, and was thoroughly impressed. I'm 26, very well read in the fantasy genre, and normally favor things like Jordan, Martin, Brooks, Pratchett, etc. (though I take an illicit pleasure in the Harry Potter-esque books of the world).

This was amazingly well done. It's not Harry Potter. Not better, not worse. It's easily AS good though. Parents, be prepared to have to define a few words to your kids (the main antagonist is the anthropomorphic personification of entropy).

It gets better throughout the series as well. If you're not totally thrilled with this book, give the next few a chance as well. Once knit together, you'll find a rare gem.

I strongly recommend this series; I've purchased it in hardbound for when my children are old enough to appreciate it.

I laughed. I cried.

I really enjoyed this book. It was a bit short, but the characters were decently developed and the action was good. The prose was excellent.

Good plot....bad voice actors.

The story line of this book is really intriguing. It is a really interesting story, built well, but a little hard to follow. However, the voice actors or narrator is really bad, which makes the book seem worse than the story actually is.

Love This Series

I love this series allot. And the narrator is the closest to perfect as I can think of.

One Word: AWESOME!!

This was my first adult audio book experience. I found it more addicting than reading the book. I suppose this is props for the orator. Nice job. The story itself is aweosme. It is like a mix of Harry Potter and Narnia. I never could get into the book by reading it so I thought I would try listening to it. It worked.

An Old Favourite Come to Life

My mother read Diane Duane's Young Wizard Series to me when I was a child and I love them every bit as much now as I did then. The series has a timelessness to it that make's it a pure joy for readers of any age. Having 'So You Want to Be a Wizard' read out loud to me again for the first time in years was wonderful fun. Christina Moore, the narrator, does a beautiful job of bring Nita, Kit, and Fred to life. I'm certain to buy the others in the series now and am really looking forward to listening to them.

Excellent narration of one of my all-time faves

I've always loved this story. I read it first when I was a teenager and it stuck with me. I have long loved Nita and her bravery, her lessons about how to face some of the same struggles I did when I was her age. I loved Kit and the Lotus and Fred and all of their adventures. I was a little nervous about the audio book because the author's voice was so strong and so unique that I was worried the narrator wouldn't do it justice. I had nothing about which to worry! Christina Moore did an amazing job bringing the characters to life, not ignoring Kit's accent and adding a slight one to Nita that really broadened my conception of the character. The pacing was spot on and I enjoyed the phrasing the narrator chose that made me reexamine certain parts of the book. Very, very well done!

A Wonderful Series for Any Age

If you love magic and adventure any of these young wizard books is for you! they are written well enough to be read/heard on their own, but are so much enhanced by each other as a whole series.