Games Wizards Play by Diane Duane - Fantasy - SFBookcase.com - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.

Series: Young Wizards
Volume: 10
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 054741806X
Pages: 640 pages
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Price: $17.99
Reader Rating: Not rated

Games Wizards Play by Diane Duane

Description: Every eleven years, Earth?s senior wizards hold the Invitational: an intensive three-week event where the planet?s newest, sharpest young wizards show off their best and hottest spells. Wizardly partners Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan, and Nita?s sister, former wizard-prodigy Dairine Callahan, are drafted in to mentor two brilliant and difficult cases: for Nita and Kit, there?s Penn Shao-Feng, a would-be sun technician with a dangerous new take on managing solar weather and for Dairine, there?s shy young Mehrnaz Farrahi, an Iranian wizard-girl trying to specialize in defusing earthquakes while struggling with a toxic extended wizardly family that demands she perform to their expectations.

Together they?re plunged into a whirlwind of cutthroat competition and ruthless judging. Penn?s egotistical attitude toward his mentors complicates matters as the pair tries to negotiate their burgeoning romance. Meanwhile, Dairine struggles to stabilize her hero-worshipping, insecure prot?g?e against the interference of