


Before she goes to sleep, she takes the Wizard's Oath. On the way home, the bullies corner her, beat her up, and take a space pen given to her by her uncle. Nita, taking refuge in the library from bullies, checks out a book found in the children's section with the provocative title So You Want To Be a Wizard. (The Young Wizards series consistently capitalizes the word Wizard.) She discovers a new hidden magical world.

She discovers that she can do actual magic and meets Kit Rodriguez, another young Wizard. Nita Callahan, a thirteen-year-old girl living in New York City, discovers a book entitled So You Want to Be a Wizard. In 2012 a revised "New Millennium Edition" was released as an eBook. It was written in 1982 and published the next year. So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane is the first book in her long-running Young Wizards series of novels which currently consists of eleven books by Diane Duane. 1983 (first printing by Delacorte Press, reprinted 1996 by Harcourt)
