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Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 8/10 Age: 10+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Suspense Pages: 620 Published in: July 2007 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Voldemort Synopsis:   Harry decided that he should leave Privet Drive and join Ron Weasley at the Burrow to prevent Voldemort from tracking him down The Order of the Phoenix, led by Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody, arrived to take Harry to his new home at the Weasleys’ house, the Burrow. Six of Harry’s friends took the Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves as Harry and act as decoys, and they all flew off in different directions. The Death Eaters, alerted to their departure by Snape, attacked Harry and his friends. Voldemort chased Harry down, but Harry’s wand fought Voldemort off, without Harry’s help. When Harry arrived at the Burrow, they all realised that Moody had been killed on the way. Harry had begun to get visions of Volde...

Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 9/10 Age: 10+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Suspense Pages: 607 Published in: July 2005 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Snape, Dumbldore,Slughorn. Synopsis:   This story started with Severus Snape. He met up with Mrs Malfoy (Draco’s Mother) and made an Unbreakable Vow to Narcissa, promising to protect Draco. One day, Dumbledore headed over to 4 Privet Drive to collect Harry from his cousin’s home. On the way to the burrow (Ron’s house) Dumbledore and Harry stopped to talk to Dumbledore’s old friend, Horace Slughorn, to work at Hogwarts again. Harry met up with Ron and Hermione once more!  When they were shopping for school books, Harry ran into Draco and followed him to Borgin and Burkes, where he overheard Draco threatening Borgin and insisted that he fix an unknown object. Harry is instantly suspicious of Draco, whom he believed to ...

  Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 7/10 Age: 10+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Magic Pages: 766 Published in: June 2003 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Umbridge, Voldemort, Dumbledore, Fudge. Synopsis:   Harry was spending another tedious summer with Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. One evening, as he was roaming around in a park, Dudley’s gang had bullied harry yet again. Harry hadn’t taken notice of Dudley until he had spotted 2 dementors swooping around. After using magic to defend himself, Harry was whisked off by wizards to number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London. This was the home to Sirius Black also known as Harry’s godfather . Harry used magic to fight off the dementors, and since underage wizards were not permitted to use their wands outside of school, he had faced a hearing at the Ministry. With Dumbledore’s help with convincing the minister, Harry was cleared and permi...

  Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 9/10 Age: 9+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Humour, Magic Pages: 636 Published in: July 2000 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Mad-Eye-Moody, Voldemort, Fudge, Mr Crouch, Dumbledore. Synopsis:   One morning, Uncle Vernon received a letter from the Weasleys that they would like to invite Harry Potter over to watch the Quidditch World Cup, and Harry was delighted to have heard from his friends at last. Uncle Vernon grudgingly agreed to let Harry go. The next day, while they were at the World cup, the saw a small house elf, named Winky, nervously waiting for her master at the top box. After a short show from the respective mascots, the game began and had many nerve-racking moments where Ireland, by keeping the cool head and following planned strategies, claimed the victory.  Although Viktor Krum, the Bulgarian Seeker, managed to catch the Snitch. ...

Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 10/10 Age: 9+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Humour, Magic Pages: 317 Published in: July 1999 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Lupin, Black, Dementors, Voldemort Synopsis:   It was Harry’s 13th Birthday and he receives owls from his friends that had bought birthday gifts for him. As usual, the Dursleys have forgotten his birthday and continue to ignore him. Aunt Marge has came to stay at the Dursley's house and she abjectly continues to insult Harry’s parents during her visit. Harry gets very angry and consequently inflates Aunt Marge where she flows towards heaven like leaping hot air balloon. He knows that he could not stand it any longer if he continues to live with the Dursley’s, so he goes  out to be collected by the knight bus that is meant for any stranded witch or wizards. While boarding a bus Harry witnesses a glimpse of a rather huge hairy and hideous...

Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 10/10 Age: 9+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Humour, Magic Pages: 251 Published in: July 1998 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Voldemort, Ginny, Tom Riddle, Malfoy. Synopsis: Harry Potter was spending a miserable summer again with his only family, the Dursleys. One day, the Dursleys were having a dinner party and Harry was told to stay up in his room with the door locked so that he could not cause any trouble while the guests were enjoying their food. Harry reluctantly agreed, and whilst he was miserably trotting up the stairs to go into his room, he witnessed a very peculiar sight. It was an ugly, dirty house elf named Dobby, and he was covered in rags. Dobby explains to Harry that Hogwarts was no longer safe for him, and that he should not go back. Harry disagrees and decides to ignore Dobby. As a result, Dobby uses spells to create havoc in the kitchen, maki...

Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 10/10 Age: 9+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Humour, Magic Pages: 223 Published in: June 1997 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Voldemort, Hagrid, Snape and Dumbledore. Synopsis : Harry Potter lives with his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon and horrible, overly-spoilt cousin Dudley (The Dursleys) in number 4, Privet Drive. However, Harry is a person that can do many extraordinary things, but he has no idea he can do this. The Dursleys are jealous of his supernatural abilities so they decide to treat Harry as a slave, and give him the smallest room possible: in the cupboard under the stairs. Harry is 11 years old and wears old, broken glasses as Mr and Mrs Dursley don’t pay much attention to their nephew’s clothes and only give Harry the scruffy old clothes of his cousin. Petunia and Vernon convince Harry that his parents died in a car crash, but is that true? One ordinary day, as Dudley...

Author: Gwyneth Rees Illustrator: Ella Okstad and Lydia Monks Rating: 10/10 Age: 7+ Genre: Fiction, Magic, Humour Pages: 176 Published in: Feb 2013 Main Characters: Emma, Saffie, Mum and Dad, Grandma and the neighbours. Synopsis : Emma is a young girl who lives with her mum, dad and her younger 6-year-old sister Saffie. These two wondrous sisters may look ordinary, but they are not. They have super powers! But it wasn’t as if they could make themselves invisible, or even fly, but what they could do was make non-living objects come to life! It wasn’t only Emma and Saffie who had powers. It was a strange gift that ran through their family; but skipped a generation each time, so neither of Emma’s parents had this magical power, but their grandma did. Emma and Saffie could do all sorts of clever things that their friends in school couldn’t, such as: making dolls talk, asking the hoover to clean up, make pens and pencil...