title: Wizards at War (The Young Wizards, Book 8)
author:  Diane Duane 
description: Grade 5-8&ndash;In this eighth volume in the series, 14-year-old wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan have just returned from an extraterrestrial vacation and are getting ready to go back to school. Meanwhile, Nita's wizardly younger sister, Dairine, and their father have been hosting three alien wizards in their basement. Everything changes when the magical group learns that the universe is rapidly filling with a mysterious dark matter that threatens to swallow all of the stars and worlds into oblivion within a few weeks. It is already causing the adult wizards to lose their powers, and even to forget that magic exists. Kit, Nita, Dairine, and their alien guests, along with Kit's magical dog, Ponch, and Dairine's enchanted laptop, Spot, zip off to scour the galaxy for a prophesied secret weapon&ndash;a person or thing that can overcome the impending catastrophe. Although Duane has tried to allow each book in the series to stand on its own, most readers will be lost without having read at least some of the predecessors. Those who are familiar with the series will thoroughly enjoy this story, especially its grand and wistful conclusion.&ndash;<I>Walter Minkel, New York Public Library</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Wizards At War (The Young Wizards Book
  8)
  Wizards at War 
  Diane Duane's 
  Young Wizards Series 
  So You Want to Be a Wizard 
  Deep Wizardry 
  High Wizardry 
  A Wizard Abroad 
  The Wizard's Dilemma 
  A Wizard Alone 
  Wizard's Holiday 
  For James White 
  Summary: Nita and Kit rejoin forces when a strange <- ~f i-Kp minH overcomes the older wizards, 
  Contents 
  Situational Awareness 1 
  Force Support 
  28 
  Initial Reconnaissance 55 
  Engagement 89 
  Target of Opportunity 113 
  Collateral Damage 
  143 
  High'Value Target 167 
  Active Defense 
  v 
  Regime Change 362 
  Strategic Withdrawal 395 
  
  Catastrophic Success 482 
  Armistice 
  vi "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the
  strange voyage can measure the tides and 
  hurricanes he will encounterOnce the signal is 
  given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." -Sir
  Winston Churchill 
  ... Moon reflected on the water: The moon doesn't get wet, nor is the wa