Book cover for Deep Wizardry: Young Wizards, Book Two by Diane Duane

Deep Wizardry

Young Wizards, Book Two

2003 Released
384 Pages
4-5 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
Clarion BooksISBN 9780547538662

Coming to the aid of a wounded whale, Kit and Nita are plunged into deep wizardry.


The whale is a wizard, and she enlists Kit and Nita in battle against the sinister Lone Power. Off Long Island, a young humpback named S’reee lies stranded by a whaler’s harpoon.


Undersea tremors are rattling the shelf, threatening to tear the beaches apart.


Kit dons a whalesark to become a sperm whale, while Nita takes humpback form. Becoming whales themselves, Nita and Kit join in an ancient ritual performed by whales, dolphins, and a single fearsome shark.


Together they descend the cliffs of Hudson Canyon toward the abyss. But which poses more of a danger: the Lone Power, or ed'Rashtekaresket, the enormous shark as old as the sea?

  • Young Wizards: Thirteen-year-old Nita Callahan and her partner Kit must balance beach-house curfews and family suspicions with an urgent summons from the Atlantic deep.
  • Marine Life: From playful dolphin Hotshot to the majestic blue whale Aroooon, a fascinating community of oceanic wizards unites to protect the living sea.
  • Quest Adventure: Deep-sea hazards test the young magicians as they face ravenous giant squids, boiling volcanic vents, and the crushing pressure of the abyss.
  • Also by This Author: So You Want to Be a Wizard, High Wizardry and A Wizard Abroad.

Diane Duane

Diane Duane is the author of The Door Into Fire, which was nominated for the World Science Fiction Society’s John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction/fantasy writer two years in a row. Duane has also published more than thirty novels, numerous short stories, and various comics and computer games, several of which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. She is best known for her continuing Young Wizards series of young adult fantasy novels about the New York–based teenage wizards Nita Callahan and Kit Rodriguez. The 1983 novel So You Want to Be a Wizard and its six sequels have been published in seven other languages.

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