false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215390354m/116564.jpg 116564 9 <div>To give Nita a vacation from magic, her parents pack her off for a stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But Nita soon finds herself with a host of Irish wizards battling creatures from a nightmare land.<br></div> 1178754 1997 Young Wizards, Book 4: A Wizard Abroad (Digest) total:892|5:276|4:338|3:229|2:45|1:4| 892 3513 1173 33 5 0 false false Fri May 08 15:25:15 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 15:12:43 -0700 2009
After having saved the world several times, and following her little sister's harrowing but triumphment Ordeal, Nita Callahan is looking forward to a quiet...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 14:24:33 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 14:54:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Feb 25 16:51:38 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 16:56:07 -0800 2009 4
Nita's attempt to facilitate negotiations between angry trees in this book is what got me reading this series in the first plac...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 27 16:25:47 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 16:25:47 -0700 2009
Not that she doesn't do it well; it's nice to finally have a story which is larger than our heroes can handle, even if they have to provide the critical input at the right mome...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Dec 04 15:00:54 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 15:00:54 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Nov 24 18:45:12 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 18:46:44 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 04 21:20:33 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 17 19:45:04 -0800 2008 Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, and they were as good as I remembered. Tight prose, and she doesn't dumb her language down for her young adult audience.

This book, however, was a bit of a disappointment. Having taken a break from Nita, Kit, ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 02:52:56 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 21:06:55 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 10 19:39:06 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 19:43:35 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 10:31:44 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 10:39:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 12 20:54:21 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 20:54:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 21:05:43 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 21:06:38 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Mar 06 16:41:10 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 16:41:48 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Oct 24 07:16:31 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 07:16:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Sep 10 18:15:26 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:16:03 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 23:09:30 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 23:10:20 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 15:34:13 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 15:34:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 01:31:59 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 01:31:59 -0700 2008 Too bad I didn't get the first book of the series, but luckily the stories seems kind of "stand alone" for each book, meaning each book brings new story with little connection to the previous books, so I could still follow the story...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Nov 09 11:44:19 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 09 11:46:21 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 22:30:51 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 11:26:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=116564