this book sertantly is darker and more scary then the rest that's for sure. the whole book focuses on a man who is beilieved to have murdered 10 people and betrayed harry potter's parents. and there is plenty of vilonce but still a great book.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
(1999, Fiction - Fantasy, Written by J. K. Rowling, Illustrated by Mary Grandpré)Ratings at a Glance
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- I rate this title off for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
good book
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
just ok
just an ok book nothing exstrodinary about it.
- I rate this title iffy for age 8 and give it
- I rate this title on for age 8 and give it
- I rate this title on for age 8 and give it
Parent & Educator Reviewers Say | Kid Reviewers Say
- I rate this title on for age 8 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Love it!
mostly good messages, a really gripping story, i should know i stayed up all night reading it ,no joke! Not really scary apart from a death omen
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
I think its a good book for kids from ages 10-14 because they are kinda fun to read and imagine and my favorite one as you can see is the prisoner of askaban
- I rate this title on for age 8 and give it
I loved this book. One of the best of the series.
- I rate this title on for age 5 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Great
This book is great, and the least scariest. I am a Harry Potter fanatic, just look at my username and picture, LOL! :) I think that this is one of the best Harry Potter books.
- I rate this title on for age 7 and give it
Best book ever!
I think it was the best book I've ever read. I like reading it over and again 10 times! My favorite part was the end in the shrieking shack.
- I rate this title iffy for age 7 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
Perfefct for tweens!
This book is awsome but there is to much peril for younger readers.
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Rowling proves herself to be quite the genious of an author.
Far too many book series will have a successful first book, and then the second and third books follow the exact same formula, and this results simply as just more of the same. This is not so with Rowling. This book is quite a bit darker and edgier, as well as more frightening from my perspective, as well as simply not the same in style. Rowling so perfectly and realistically transitions Harry and the gang from kids to teenagers. The subplots and twists are not only incredible, but frequent to no end. I highly reccomend this shocking, engaging, page turning book to everyone 10 and older.
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Great for anyone 8 and over
Th is my all time favorite Harry Potter book in the series.
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Harry Potter RULES!!!!!!!!!!
Harry faces many new challenges this year. He goes throughout almost the whole year seeing the Grim, a dark of of death. Harry faces Boggarts, Werewolves, Dementors, and many more strange creatures in the third installment of Harry Potter. This edition will have readers on the edge of their seats throughout the whole book. I would reccomend this book for kids 9 and up.
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
Loved It
I loved this book very good and interesting. I love thease books and is fun to read. A littel scary I would say 9+
- I rate this title on for age 8 and give it
An Excellent Addition
By the time The Prisoner of Azkaban was released in 1999, I think Rowling began to realize that her audience wasn't only children anymore, which is a good thing, because this addition to the Potter series takes a plunge toward darkness. There is a very mysterious and dark aura around this book's story that the ones before didn't seem to have. The twists are amazing, and a main antagonist that wasn't Lord Voldemort made for a pleasant change. The book is considerably longer than the two that came before it, and may be intimidating to younger readers, but I think that the sometimes complex concepts of the story can be grasped by children over eight or nine.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS THE SIERIES GOES ON IT GETS DARKER BUT THIS BOOK IS STILL CHILD FRIENLDY.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
My favourite H.P. book
This is the best one in my opinion because it's reaching the turning point where Harry is becoming a teenager. It also has a lot of humour. Some parents might not like that Harry lies about his name when he runs away and is on the Knight Bus. Come to think of it, they might not like his running away either. But he had a good reason and the book doesn't portray irresponsible behaviour as a good thing, so I would still recommend this to any children.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
i cried sometimes a laughed most of the time
a truly great book you get lost as if your the character great for people who read all the time
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
How does she do it?
Part-way through this book I looked up and thought to myself, "how does she do it?" And that is a questions asked throughout all the world. Rowling introduces such a world, such a place, such a universe, that everyone sometimes drifts off and forget this was written by a person and isn't really real. Shockingly wonderful, in all fan's heads sometimes we refuse to believe it isn't real. Rowling strikes gold again, introducing more horrors, more suprises, more laughs. Parts of it are scary, anyone will admit. All the evidence points to the fact that someone by Hogwarts is trying to murder. There are 'dementors' creatures who suck all the happiness out of you and eventually permorm a 'kiss'; a way to suck out your soul through your mouth. Some people say butterbeer is a problem. I disagree. Butterbeer is a made-up magical drink with a pinch of alchohol. Probably less. If you drank gallons of it you probably still wouldn't even be tipsy. Hagrid does get drunk, and that's a little problem. Otherwise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a wonderful, fabulous book that gives kids of all ages and even adults a wonderful read with things like love, laughs, and peace, to things like horror, relief, and shock. There's even a lot of the fabulous idea of time travel, too. Which brings us back to our first question. How does she do it? We may never know.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
Wonderfull!
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
like magic.(well it is magic)
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
HARRY POTTER IS THE BEST FRIGGEN BOOK AND MOVIE EVER!!
i read the 1st book when i was 5 and i still love it more than anything. i am like, 14 now. HARRY POTTER PWNS ALL!! lord of the rings is a total BORE compared to this and series of unfortunate events just sucked. book and movie. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A LIFE CHANGING, WONDERFUL, FANTASTIC, AWESOME, GREAT, FABULOUS, UNBELIEVABLE, COOL, FRIGGEN SUPER, HAWT, INCREDIBLE,PWNING, IMPRESSIVE, GRAND, STRIKING, MAGESTIC, SUPERB, SPLENDID, SENSATIONAL, MARVELOUS, SMASHING, OUTSTANDING, TERRIFIC, BEST BOOK EVER: read harry potter I READ HALF BLOOD PRINCE IN 5 1/2 HOURS!!! AND ORDER OF THE PHEONIX IN 2 DAYS!! HARRY FANSITES: (if you don't know about these...you can't call yourself a fan.) www.mugglenet.com www.mugglecast.com www.potterpuppetpals.com www.leakycauldron.com www.jkrowling.com www.harrypotter.com and many more if your a fan.I AM NOT JUST A FAN...I AM AN OBSSESSED, IN LOVE, BLAHBLAHBLAH...-goes on for hours- fan! HARRY POTTER IS LIKE MY BIBLE! I CARRY HBP AROUND WITH ME EVERYWHERE!! HARRY POTTER IS THE BEST THING EVER CREATED. SO BITE ME LAURA MALLORY AND ALL YOU FRIGGEN HARRY POTTER HATERS! -that is all.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
Great...an instant classic.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
J.K. Rowling Does it once more!
J.K. Rowling Really touches us in this adventuress, mysterious, and exciting book. Harry Potter has his most dangerous adventure in Hogwarts so far. You'll never be able to put this book down for more than five seconds.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
i think ur wrong
i just adored this book.
