Witch Week

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Summary: a good book to read aloud
Review: I first read this book when I was seven or eight years old. It was my favourite book for a long time, and I still think it's a good read, but, contrary to the age suggestion, I think it's enjoyed best around age 8 or 9. This is also a good book for parents or teachers to read aloud. This a great book, but I don't think it's one of Diana Wynne-Jones's best.

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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: I know I read this a long time ago when my age was probably in the one digit zone but I still remember that this book was absolutely wonderful. I remember I could not put this book down, it was that good. It is one of the most surprisingly good reads ever. Why? Well you just had to find out what would happen to the kids, whether they would be found out, what were they going to do? Hey who else is a witch? Well..I'm really straining my brain here since it was a good 8 or so years ago but I just had to say, it still sticks in my mind what an intriguing book this was when I was young.

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Summary: Raining Shoes! If you like Harry Potter....
Review: I liked Witch Week because it was exciting! I liked the part when the shoes came raining down on Charles. I also like the part when the guys shot the witchfinder! Charles Haverty, Atrium School

I liked Witch Week because it is a hilarious, magical and adventurous kind of book. Some of the characters are: Charles, Nan (real name Dulcinea), Nirupam and Estelle and many others. You'll like the way all the characters come to life! Katie Surrey-Bergman, Atrium School.

NON-WITCH SCHOOL, STEP ASIDE. I like the part when everything Simon Silverson says comes true. Simon rendered himself mindless and he got himself a pile of gold pieces! It's hilarious and I loved it. Paris Ellsworth, Atrium School

This enchanting story takes me on many adventures as I read and amazes me with its mysteries. Some of the adventures like flying around on brooms and sneaking around the school at night are great. Eliza Novick, Atrium School

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Summary: What a lot of Fun!
Review: I loved this book! I read it to my son and we were both hooked from page one. It's a light-hearted fun read meant for younger kids but with lots of jokes and amusing situations that adults will appreciate.

I heartily recommend this to you!

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Summary: Good but not superb
Review: I think this book is pretty good except for a few things. I think all the charecters are over exagerated. I also did not like the ending at all. Why did they all have to give up there power. If I was a witch I would never give it up.

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Summary: Lovely, Wonderful, Charming, Entrancing
Review: I was absolutely obsessed with this book as a child (well, adolescent)! Mrs. Jones has such a captivating and realistic style, even while maintaining the mystical aspects of her plots. The characters were so easy to identify with, esp. Nan. A wonderful book for adolescents and gifted children!

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Summary: Don't waste your money--OR time!
Review: I was very indignant that the large bookstore where I bought this had recommended this book for people who liked Harry Potter books. This deplorable book is boring and depressing. The first Harry Potter book starts with him in a position of oppression, but that part doesn't drag on and on and on. In Witch Week, that part lasted 72 pages, and personally, I don't enjoy dwelling on misery that much. And there was not one single person in the whole book whom I could really LIKE--in contrast to the Harry Potter books, in which there are numerous endearing characters in every book. The people in Witch Week were typically unkind and just plain mean. The only one I rather liked was one of the teachers, and I sympathized with him, rather than feeling fond of him. I not only traded this book in at a bookstore (as I do only for truly worthless books) but I resolved to stay away from any others by that author. I had tried another by her and given up when it proved to be equally unsatisfactory.

For readers who like the feeling of fresh horizons and magical possibilities or the likeable characters in the Harry Potter books, I would highly recommend any books by Tamora Pierce (but particularly the Circle of Magic series and The Circle Opens series), the Yurt books of C.Dale Brittain (starting with "A Bad Spell in Yurt") and "Count Scar," and the Valdemar series of Mercedes Lackey (starting with "Arrow's Flight") and her Bardic Voices series, especially "The Lark and the Wren," "The Robin and the Kestrel," and "The Eagle and the Nightingale."

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Summary: Harry Potter fans - You ain't seen nothin' yet!
Review: I'm as much of a Harry Potter fan as the next girl, but this story really takes the cake for a good book. It's fun for kids of all ages, and it'll have you cracking your ribs with laughter. In one of the many worlds parallel to our own, witches are as common as freckles, yet witchcraft is a crime punishable by death. So when one student of class 6-B anonymously slips a note to the teacher that says one student in the class is a witch, it is a very serious matter in deed. All the characters have real depth and are perfectly believable. Lowood school is just horrible enough to be real. And, most importantly, THIS BOOK IS HILARIOUS!!!

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Summary: Enchanting!
Review: If you as I thought that the HP{Harry Potter} series are the best books in exsitance, you may be plesently surprised. Now before I go on keep this in mind"Witches are still being burned. The book starts as any regular day for 6B Larwood House{A boarding school run by the goverment for witch orphans and children with other problems}. Then Mr. Crossely discovers a note in one of the geogaphy books the enchanting plot begins with the simple words SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH! written in ordanariy ballpoint pen. Who could it be! Certinley not that popular girl, Theresa, or that boy, Simon Silverson. But what about that chubby girl, Nan Pilgram, or that unpleasent boy, Charles. Or maybe that small boy, Brian Wentworth , or maybe Estelle Green. Unusal things start happening, birds in Music, Missing shoes,ect. The question still remans who is the witch and who wrote the note. An enchanting plot so wonderful you can never put down!

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Summary: Just as good as Charmed Life
Review: In a very strange world, different and similar to ours, in a classroom a teacher finds a note tucked inbetween too books. "Someone in this class is a witch" is written in big letters. But who is the witch? In this world every witch, good or bad, is condemmed to be burned at the stake. Could this witch be Charles, a boy who's just discovered he can do spells? Or is it Nam, a girl who's named atfter the most famout Witch of them all? THe teacher dosen't know but from that day on strange things start to happen. Things that only the great Chrestomanci can fix.

I really liked this book. It was just as good as the other book in the series I've read, Charmed life. If your a fan of magic books and/or works by Diane Wynne-Jones I really reccomend this book. I'm part-way through the next book in the series and I'm just as pleased. If you like fictional witchcraft and magic read this book!