A Wizard Alone

Young Wizard Series, Book 6

By: Diane Duane

Narrated by: Christina Moore

“A fine fantasy … Beautifully and fully imagined”—sixth in the marvelously magical young adult series from the author of The Wizard’s Dilemma (Booklist).

While Nita Callahan grieves over her mother’s death, Kit Rodriguez tackles a challenge as dangerous as it is strange: Rescue a young wizard who has vanished on his first assignment. This new wizard is unlike any other—he’s autistic and he’s a magical prodigy. His power is enormous. Now Kit and his dog, Ponch, must track down the missing boy before the Lone Power finds him.

You can listen to Diane Duane's entire Young Wizard series.©2002 Diane Duane (P)2003 Recorded Books

Critic reviews

"Duane's characters and plot will quickly draw [listeners] in." (School Library Journal)

"A fine fantasy." (Booklist)

Odd pronunciation in some places

Others have commented on the very dated view of autism so I won’t repeat that. I was put off by Christina Moore’s incorrect pronunciation of some common words, after her pretty much flawless performance otherwise.

Wonderful

This is a timeless story.. you wouldn't know it was written so long ago! I still recommend this to kids and our library!

amazing

yet another amazing story in the young wizards series. now its on to yhe next one for me! :D

Multiverse

Loved the way the storyline developed. Poncho is my favorite character, even though he’s a dog.

Not the best in the series... but still darn good!

Okay, it was time that the quality of this series took a hit. Instead of my normal enthusiastic five starts, this one only gets four.

Some of the narrative is confusing, and some of the facts are wrong. Autism, for example, doesn't suddenly strike eight-year-olds.

Still, there's much good in it, and I really liked the way it followed the events of A WIZARD'S DILEMMA. (No spoilers.)

It sort of feels like an in-between book. I expect that some of the details in this book will come up in the next two.

I've said it before, but the reader for this book is really good. Without launching into a full performance, she keeps the voices separate, and you can feel each character in the voice.