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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)

by J.K. Rowling

Series: Harry Potter (3)

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Arthur A. Levine Books (1999), Hardcover

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the movie and the book were both excellent, though I can see where the two versions are starting to diverge, in small ways at this point. ( )
  Kace | Jan 30, 2010 |
Another great book in the series. Read this one with Alex too. ( )
  JUANCORTIZ | Jan 29, 2010 |
All the books are very similar and they are all very good. ( )
1 vote BJK1903 | Jan 28, 2010 |
In this book there is a mass murder that is called Sirius Black who escaped from Azkaban recently. When Harry finds out that Sirius Black is his Godfather things get into a situation. ( )
1 vote PuffyBear | Jan 27, 2010 |
Seven out of ten.The third book in the Harry Potter series. A mass-murdering prisoner has escaped from Azakaban and the Dementors, the prison guards, have arrived in Hogwarts to protect the students and hunt the prisoner. It is understood that the prisoner is seeking Harry but he must be safe in Hogwarts surrounded by friends - unless there is a traitor... One of the best books in the series saw the whole story take a darker tone that adds much more suspense. ( )
1 vote theboylatham | Jan 25, 2010 |
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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.
 
So far, in terms of plot, the books do nothing very new, but they do it brilliantly
 
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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 consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
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8 books ????
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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.

Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0439136350, Hardcover)

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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