High Wizardry

Diane Duane

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001 - Juvenile Fiction - 353 pages

Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for a ten-year-old, she also has recently become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless power. When Dairine's computerized wizard's manual glibly sends her off on her novice adventure--her Ordeal--Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy, trying to catch up with Dairine before she gets into trouble so deep that not even her brains can rescue her.

Contents

• Initialization: 1
• Passwords: 19
• Up and Running: 32
• Escape Key: 45
• Search and Retrieval: 64
• Randomization: 100
• Variables: 147
• Pattern Recognition: 172
• Uplink: 189
• Reserved Words: 205
• Fatal Error: 233
• Save and Exit: 276
• Reconfiguration: 320

About the author

Author Diane Duane was born in New York City on May 18, 1952, and grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island. She is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Duane studied nursing in college and became a psychiatric nurse. She began writing full time in 1980 and has published numerous novels, including several with her husband, Peter Morwood. She also writes screenplays, served as senior writer for the BBC-TV education series "Science Challenge," and writes scripts for CD-ROM computer games. Her "Young Wizards" series won a special commendation in the Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize in Children's Literature, 2003. She currently lives in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Bibliographic information

• Title: High Wizardry; Book 3 of Young wizards series, Diane Duane
• Author: Diane Duane
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001
• ISBN: 0152162445, 9780152162443
• Length: 353 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Computers & Digital Media; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic; Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / General; Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / General