Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Genre: Fantasy

AR level: 7.2

AR points: 29.0

Summary:

Harry Potter is starting his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Ever since the ministry has admitted that Voldemort is back, very careful precautions were taken to protect them from the Death Eaters. This year, Harry is taking private lessons from Dumbledore himself. This year, instead of a new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher, there is a new potions teacher-Professor Slughorn-and Professor Snape is finally the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Then, Harry found an old potions book that he used to help him in potions class that used to belong to someone called the Half-Blood Prince. For a while the Prince is helping him, but soon, Harry performs one of the spells mentioned in the book that he wrote down and it has a terrible effect. Now, after seeing the Prince using the Dark Arts, he is not sure if the Prince is good or evil

Out of 5 stars, this book gets a 5!

Review by Spencer 2008

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