So You Want to Be a Wizard

In the first book of the Young Wizards series, bullied schoolgirl Nita Callahan discovers a mysterious library book that offers her a chance to escape her reality by becoming a wizard. Alongside fellow wizard-in-training Kit Rodriguez, she must navigate a perilous alternate version of New York and confront the Lone Power, an entity that embodies death and threatens all wizards. As they embark on a dangerous mission, Nita and Kit must harness their emerging magical abilities and rely on each other to survive and protect the world.