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This is where I gave up on the Harry Potter craze. Not for me. Too cutesy. Meh. (

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woodge | Nov 20, 2009 |

Awesome! I know it's cliche but the books are so much better than the movies! (

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Cailin | Nov 10, 2009 |

This was actually the first book I read from the Harry Potter series. As a result, this is my favorite book in the series. It is very funny at points, and the story is very exciting. (

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mauveberry | Nov 1, 2009 |

It's the third year and there's a killer on the lose. Harry's godfather Sires Black. Every one thinks that Sires is the raesone why the Potters are dead. Help harry figure out if Sires is inisent or gillty. (

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littlebug | Oct 25, 2009 |

You know, these Potter books are growing on me. Remarkably more show than tell as I get further in, and they are becoming more interesting. Maybe I didn't give JK enough credit - maybe it's intentional that the writing style becomes progressively more grown-up through the series....? (

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pauliharman | Oct 22, 2009 |

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All current reviews of Harry Potter books should probably be addressed to some future audience for whom Harry is book rather than phenomenon; at the moment, reviews seem superfluous. For the record, then, O future reader, this latest installment in Harry’s saga is quite a good book.

added by Shortride | editThe Horn Book, Martha V. Parravano (Nov 1, 2009)

So far, in terms of plot, the books do nothing very new, but they do it brilliantly

added by Shortride | editThe New York Times Book Review, Gregory Maguire (Sep 5, 1999)

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Series (with order)

Harry Potter (3)

Canonical Title

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Original publication date

1999-09-08 (US Release)

1999-07-08 (British Release)

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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scotland, UK

Number 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, England, UK

Diagon Alley, London, England, UK

Hogsmeade, Scotland, UK

Forbidden Forest, Scotland, UK

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Whitbread (Children's Book, 1999)

Benjamin Franklin Award (Audiobook - Children, 2001)

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1999)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (Children’s Literature, 2008)

Bram Stoker Award (Work for Young Readers, 1999)

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To Jill Prewett and Aine Kiely, the Godmothers of Swing

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Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

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The Wizarding world is shocked to hear a mass Murderer has escaped from the prison they call Azkaban. Sirius Black is said to have murdered countless muggles (non magic folk) and parents are locking up their children. Harry Potter has started school and is going on his first trip to Hogs Mead when by shear luck he overhears the Miniter for Magic wisper his name. Harry Follows him using his invisibility cloak and discovers why Mr Weasley warned him about Black personally before school had started. Sirius Black had been a friend of his Parents, was the one who sold them out to Voldemort and worst of all he was and still is to this day Harry's God Father. Harry knows thats why Sirius has escaped, he knows he's coming for him and he can't wait because when he finds him, Harry will be ready.......Full of death and Suspense, this book is defiantly the darkest yet and shows that Magic isn't just cool tricks and bright lights.

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For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who's forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.

As it turns out, Harry isn't punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he's after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry's very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson

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