Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J. K. Rowling
Reviewer: Brady
Summary: A young 13-year-old wizard named Harry Potter is going off to his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he arrived at Hogwarts, he heard that the infamous murderer named Sirius Black as escaped from the wizard jail of Azkaban and was seeking revenge on Harry from the unfinished business of killing Harry’s parents. Sirius gave information of the Potters’ whereabouts to the most powerful dark wizard named Voldemort. As Harry very much wanted to go to the village of Hogsmeade for a school fieldtrip, but he didn’t have the permission form signed, so we found a secret tunnel that leads into the center of the village’s candy store using the Marauder’s map. Has he and his two best friends, Ron and Hermione, were sitting in the pub, teachers walked in and he overheard that Black was Harry’s godfather. While they were walking back from what they thought was Buckbeak’s, a hippogriff, execution, they were attacked by Sirius Black and dragged Ron holding his pet rat named Scabbers through a tunnel under the magical tree called the Whopping Willow into The Shrieking Shack. But the others realized as Professor Lupin came in and explained that Black was framed by Ron’s rat. It turns out that Ron’s rat was actually Peter Pettigrew! As they captured him and was taking Peter back to the castle, it turns out that Lupin was actually a warewolf. In all the commotion, Peter was able to escape. With Black’s name not cleared he had to into hiding. With escaping on Buckbeak and going into hiding, he was able to be undetected.

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Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Title: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Author: Ally Carter
Reviewer: Maddie
Summary:
Cammie Morgan goes to the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, which is really a school for spies. She and her friends figure out that there is another spy school… but this one is for boys. First, she and her friends learn that their school is going to host some mysterious guests. Then, she is blamed for a security breach that has the school’s top secret status at a risk. The Gallagher girls and the Blackthorne boys have to team up to test their spy skills, and the stakes for Cammie’s school are higher than ever.

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Absolute Pressure

Title: Absolute Pressure
Author: Sigmund Brouwer
Reviewer: Jenny
Summary: Ian loves to scuba dive and works at his uncle’s dive shop in Key West, Florida. He strongly admires Sherri, the girl who also works at his uncle’s shop. He wonders what she would feel like if he told her that every time he sees her he tastes blackberries, because he has a condition called synesthesia. Someone has tried to kill Ian, twice and lead him to believe his uncle is in great danger. What he doesn’t know, is that it’s even more complicating and terrifying than he would have ever thought it to be. In the end, something shocking happens. Ian’s uncle isn’t who he thought he was. It will leave you asking, does Ian’s uncle care about him, or not?

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The Sea of Monsters

Title: The Sea of Monsters
Author: Rick Riordan
Reviewer: Toni
Camp Half-Blood is in trouble. Someone has poisened Thalia's tree, making the camp unsafe and allowing monsters to enter. The Golden Fleece is their only hope. On top of that, Percy's friend Grover is being held captive by Polyphemus, the cyclops who stole the Fleece and uses its magical powers to lure young satyrs to their death. Percy, Annebeth, and Tyson set out on a quest to save the camp from its destruction. Luke also wants the Fleece, but he plans to uses its magic for evil. Percy finally reaches The Sea of Monsters. They sail its length barely surviving. With the help of his friends, Percy rescues Grover and the fleece from the giant cyclops. The fleece is brought to camp and it heals Thalia's tree. The camp is safe, at least for now.

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The Golden Hour

Title- The Golden Hour
Author- Maiya Williams
Reviewer- Chase
Nina and Rowan Popplewell just lost their mother in a car crash. Their father sends them to stay with their two aunts in Owatannauk, Maine. There, they meet Xanthe and Xavier. Nina is so depressed about her mother, she decides to go back in time at the old, abondoned, Owatannauk Hotel, which their aunts warned them not to go in. Rowan doesn't know where Nina is so he goes with Xanthe and Xavier back in time to the French Revoulition. Thinking that's where Nina went because she is a huge fan of Motzart. They can only time travel during the Golden Hour (sunset) and only have one week to find her and get back home or they will be stuck in that time period forever. In France, they meet many famous people like Motzart, King Louis, and Queen Marie Antoinette.Rowan becomes a friend of the Queen and hears her side of the story and later watches her exucution. While there, Rowan has made enemies, goes to prison and is about to be executed along with Xanthe and Xavier. Just before they are going to be killed, they escape,go back to the future, just in time, and Rowan finally figures out where Nina went. He goes back to 1990, Brooklyn, NY, where their mother met their father. He finds Nina, convinces her to go back and they end up with everything working out.

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Stormbreaker

Title: Stormbreaker
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Reviewer: Joseph
This book is about A kid named Alex Rider . When his Uncle dies in A mysterious car crash he fiend out that he was working for a special intelligence agency called M16. When M16 recruits him to find his uncles killers. So he ends up going to A man Named Herod Sayle to invesyigate. But after figuring out a bunch of clues he figures out what he is up to so he has to stop him before time runs out.

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