| Author/Contributor(s): | Duane, Diane |
| Publisher: | Clarion Books |
| Date: | 6/1/2001 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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. Young humpback calf S'reee has barely survived an explosive harpoon and a feeding frenzy offshore, only to find that unseasonable tremors are fracturing the seabed and threatening the coast with ruin.
Becoming whales themselves, Nita and Kit join in an ancient ritual performed by whales, dolphins, and a single fearsome shark. To reenact the Song of the Twelve and bind the darkness anew, the company must journey through the towering cliffs of Hudson Canyon to the lonely undersea mountain of Caryn Peak.
Yet can a pair of novice defenders survive the crushing cold and tooth-strewn dark miles beneath the waves? Still, which sacrifice will the deep demand before the song is ended: their sworn wizardry, or their lives?
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 twelve-year-old Kit Rodriguez trade their quiet Long Island summer beach holiday for high-stakes wizardry when a wounded humpback calf asks for their help.
- Marine Life: Guided by the dolphin Hotshot, the young wizards master the deep ocean through magical shapechanging, navigating kelp beds, offshore shoals, and undersea canyons as baleen and sperm whales.
- Modern Fantasy: Ancient oceanic lore collides with contemporary Long Island as the wizardly Speech and oceanic memory reveal that recent seafloor quakes threaten coastal cities with catastrophic destruction.
- Kids Fantasy Books: To hold back the darkness, Nita must enact the dangerous role of the Silent Lord in the ancient Song of the Twelve, unaware of the mortal price the rite demands.
- Also by This Author: So You Want to Be a Wizard, High Wizardry and A Wizard Abroad.