Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7)

Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publication Date: July 2007
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Summary: It's no longer safe for Harry at Hogwarts, so he and his best friends, Ron and Hermione, are on the run. Professor Dumbledore has given them clues about what they need to do to defeat the dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, once and for all, but it's up to them to figure out what these hints and suggestions really mean. Their cross-country odyssey has them searching desperately for the answers, while evading capture or death at every turn. At the same time, their friendship, fortitude, and sense of right and wrong are tested in ways they never could have imagined. The ultimate battle between good and evil that closes out this final chapter of the epic series takes place where Harry's Wizarding life began: at Hogwarts.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6)

Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publication Date: July 2005
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Summary: The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet...As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate--and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort--and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5)

Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: June 2003
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his firth year at Hogwarts: a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. But all these things pale next to the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named - a threat that neither the magical government nor the authorities at Hogwarts can stop. As the grasp of darkness tightens, Harry must discover the true depth and strength of his friends, the importance of boundless loyalty, and the shocking price of unbearable sacrifice. His fate depends on them all.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4)

Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: July 2000
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal--even by wizarding standards.
And in his case, different can be deadly.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)

Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Bloombury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: July 1999
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts...he’s at Hogwarts." Harry Potter isn’t safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2)

Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: July 1998
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny. But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself!
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter #1)

Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: June 1997
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley--a great big swollen spoiled bully. Harry lives in a cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years. But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to an incredible place that Harry--and anyone who reads about him--will find unforgettable. For it's there that he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic in everything from classes to meals, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him...if Harry can survive the encounter.
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The Chronicles of Narnia Chronological Order

The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia #1)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia #2)
The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia #3)
Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia #4)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia #5)
The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia #6)
The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia #7)

The Chronicles of Narnia Recommended Reading Order

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia #2)
Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia #4)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia #5)
The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia #6)
The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia #7)
The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia #3)
The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia #1)

The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia #7)

Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Publication Date: September 1956
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: Narnia...where lies breed fear...where loyalty is tested...where all hope seems lost. During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challenge--not an invader from without but an enemy from within. Lies and treachery have taken root, and only the king and a small band of loyal followers can prevent the destruction of all they hold dear in this, the magnificent ending to The Chronicles of Narnia.
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The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia #1)

Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Publication Date: May 1955
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: Narnia...where the woods are thick and cool, where Talking Beasts are called to life...a new world where the adventure begins. Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory's Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to...somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia, newborn from the Lion's song, and encounter the evil sorceress Jadis before they finally return home.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia #3)

Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Publication Date: September 1954
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: Narnia...where horses talk and hermits like company, where evil men turn into donkeys, where boys go into battle...and where the adventure begins. During the Golden Age of Narnia, when Peter is High King, a boy named Shasta discovers he is not the son of Arsheesh, the Calormene fisherman, and decides to run far away to the North--to Narnia. When he is mistaken for another runaway, Shasta is led to discover who he really is and even finds his real father.
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The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia #6)

Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Publication Date: September 1953
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: Narnia...where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans, where a prince is put under an evil spell...and where the adventures begins. Eustace and Jill escape from the bullies at school through a strange door in the wall, which, for once, is unlocked. It leads to the open moor...or does it? Once again Aslan has a task for the children, and Narnia needs them. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, they pursue the quest that brings them face to face with the evil Witch. She must be defeated if Prince Rilian is to be saved.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia #5)

Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Publication Date: September 1952
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: Narnia...where anything can happen (and most often does)...and where the adventure begins. The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, their cousin Eustace, and Caspian to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan's country at the End of the World.
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Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia #4)

Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Publication Date: October 1951
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Summary: Narnia...the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen...and where the adventure begins. Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia--the land where they had ruled as kings and queens and where their help is desperately needed. The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne.
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