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Summary: Page turner
Review: One of the best books I've read! I think that you parents should encurege your kids to STOP watching TV and START reading!I'm 8 and I think reading is fun. Harry Potter books are fun for kids because we usually like fantasies. Thats why I gave it 5 stars.I bet even grown-ups would like it.Have a good time reading the series;I know I sure did!
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Summary: Hogwarts : Where Pupils Are Encouraged To Curse
Review: Orphaned as a baby, Harry has spent most of his life being brought up by his muggle Aunt and Uncle. Treated shamefully by them, he had known nothing about his true abilities, or about how his parents really died, until visited by a giant of a man called Hagrid. Harry, the son of a Wizard and a Witch, was a hugely talented, very famous wizard himself - and Hagrid was to take him to Hogwarts. Hogwarts is a prestigious school for training young witches and wizards, and Harry's first year there was covered in "The Sorcerer's Stone". This book, "The Chamber of Secrets", covers Harry's second year there. The book features most of the characters who turned up in the previous book - Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also return to Hogwarts and remain Harry's best friends. Draco Malfoy, Harry's arch-nemesis, also returns. Malfoy's distaste for Wizards and Witches with muggle parents seems to have increased over the holidays, and he is even less likeable in this book than in the last. His father Lucius, who sits on the school's Board of Governors, also makes his first appearance. It's easy to see where Draco picked up all his less than endearing qualities, and that Lucius has some rather 'dark' secrets of his own.Naturally, there are some new characters. The new first years at the school include Ron's younger sister, Ginny - who appears to have something of a crush on Harry. While a number of ghosts appeared in "The Sorcerer's Stone", Moaning Myrtle, who haunts one of the school's toilets, makes her debut in this book. There's also been one change to the teaching staff over the holidays - Professor Gilderoy Lockhart has been appointed the new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher. Harry meets him for the first time in Diagon Alley, and takes an instant dislike to him. Although very famous and popular with witches everywhere, he has a huge ego, plainly loves being famous and is constantly bragging. As the book starts, the end of the holidays is approaching and Harry can't wait for the beginning of term. However he receives a visit from a mysterious house elf called Dobby, who warns Harry he'll be in grave danger if he returns to school. Things take an even more worrying turn when he arrives at Kings Cross - neither himself or Ron can enter Platform Nine and Three Quarters. They do make their own way to Hogwarts - but their mode of transport only gets them in even more trouble. Things go from bad to worse and, before long, Harry starts hearing strange voices around the school that no-one else can hear. Sooner than you can say "Expelliarmus", the legend of the Chamber of Secrets comes back to life raising disturbing suspicions about our hero. Rowling has produced another excellent story. The fact that much of the wizarding world has already been introduced in "The Sorcerer's Stone" helps this book out greatly. (As a result, it's probably best to read them in order). With this book, she can concentrate a little more on the story - which has quite a strong sense of mystery element about it. As with "The Sorcerer's Stone", it will be enjoyed by children and by adults willing to give it a chance.
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Summary: Our 9-yr-old read this book 3 times in a row!
Review: Our 9-year-old son read this book three times in a row. He says he learns more every time he reads it. Now he and his Dad are reading it together and Dad is hooked, too.
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Summary: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 thumbs waaaaaaaaay up!!!!!!
Review: Our teacher read this book to us during read aloud and every time she stopped, even to just catch her breath, we would groan because we thought she was stopping!!!! Our teacher is Ms. Kate Hayes and I would like to thank Mr. Hayes, her Dad, for sendingu s this great book through Ammazon.com. I am now a customer.THANKS SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Review: O~MY~GOSH! Although I liked the first Harry Potter book a bit more, this one lived up to my expectations about 98%. A definate must~read for Harry Potter fans and those alike! Much love to J.K Rowling for such a GOOD series! I hope she plans on keepin up on Harry's years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as well as (hopefully) hsi years beyond the school. This book, like the first, force you into it. It is almost as if you could look around and totally envision Peeves, the school poltergeist, or Ron Weasly, Harry's red-headed best friend. It totally submearses the reader into its world of magic and wizardry. An absolute Must Read for children, teenagers, young adults, and afults alike! 4 1/2 stars! I look forward to reading the 3rd book in the series Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as well as the 4th book, Harry Potter and the Doomsday Spell. Thank You So Much Ms. Rowling! melanie
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Summary: This Book is Almost As Good As The First One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: People, People!!!!!!!!!!!! READ THE BOOK!!!!!!!!!! If you haven't already. In ten days I will be getting both books for my birthday although I have already read them both!! I made my parents buy the books for me because they are the best books ever written. Thank-you for reading this!!
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Summary: Though slow, still a joy to read
Review: Personally I enjoy Book 1 more. I think Book 2 has a slow start. The story doesn't really get to the guts of the book until the second half. Then it starts to pick up. I like the very end the most. Overall I still enjoy reading it (compared to Book 1) and do admire the very innovative imagination of the author.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Personally this is my least favorite but it doesn't lag far behind. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are going back to Hogwarts for year two of their wizarding training. Plenty of adventures happen to them while they race the heir of Slytherin and try to uncover the secret of the Chamber of Secrets and save the muggles in the school. J.K Rowling captures you into the pages again! Children should READ this book, but you should read the first one before you read this one.
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Summary: A great read for the entire family!
Review: Picture this: Mom, Dad and 5 year old son swinging in a hammock while enjoying a story on a balmy summer evening. The story? Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Harry's back and the adventure continues. This sequel to Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone is equally exciting. My son is entranced (and so is Mom!) as his Dad reads this action packed tale before bedtime. It's a great fairy tale comparible to those of Ronald Dahl(Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.) We all loved it and can't wait for the next installment of what we hope will be a very long series of Harry's adventures as a evil-fighting wizard (the action figure can't be far behind!) Until then I'm sure we'll be reading it over and over again just as we've been doing with the original story.
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Summary: Great Book!! A must read!
Review: Please please ignore what you hear about this book as being "bad, evil." There is nothing bad about these books and I must say it is a great book for children. This whole series is fantastic!!! Please ignore what you hear about this book being evil. The people that say that obviously haven't read the books (referring to the series) or are very misguided. Nothing is wrong with a fictional fairy tale.
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