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Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 2003
Hardcover, 2003
Audio Cassette, 2003
Compact Disc, 2003
Hardcover, 2003
Paperback, 2004

Synopsis
Most critics and readers agree that HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX marks a turning point in J. K. Rowling's enormously popular series in that the story takes on a more mature, darker tone. Now 15 years old, Harry faces the downside of being the world's most famous wizard-in-training and must adjust to changes in his relationships with friends and mentors. He also learns something quite disconcerting about his deceased parents and begins to realize how his personal demons make him vulnerable to the evil Lord Voldemort. Further complications arise when Harry grows disillusioned with the government of the magical realm and begins to question the power of the authorities at Hogwarts. A film version was made in 2007, releasing just days below the final book in the series. When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.

Details
Series:             Harry Potter Series
Illustrator:         Mary Grandpre
Language:        English
Reading Level:  Grades 7 to 9

Size
Weight:        2.7 Pounds
Height:         9.3 Inches
Width:          7.5 Inches
Thickness:    2.3 Inches



Publisher Notes
First Line: The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.
A special library binding for the Harry Potter series



Industry Reviews
"One of the many things that makes Rowling's series so wonderful is that Harry, who started the series as an 11-year-old, is aging believably as each book covers a year of his life. And as his sense of himself expands, so do the books and the Potter universe."
(06/20/2003)
"All the qualities that marred the fourth book--the loping, uneven pace of a novel that seemed churned out rather than written--have evaporated. Indeed, the faux gothic horror of the fourth has been replaced by a return to the wonderful, textured writing of the three earlier novels. The novel does not have the frankly grisly scenes that were so disturbing in GOBLET OF FIRE."
(06/20/2003)
"J.K. Rowling's great gift -- her ability to conjure a rich, teeming, utterly believable alternative world -- hasn't failed her....she has also let Harry blossom into a genuinely complex and persuasive character."
(06/24/2003)
"J. K. Rowling is the real magician....HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX is rich and satisfying in almost every respect. It also delivers a genuine apocalyptic shiver, as dated as Daniel in the Old Testament and Revelation in the New or the Dead Sea Scrolls and the poems of Blake."
(07/13/2003)
"Rowling favors psychological development over plot development here, skillfully exploring the effects of Harry's fall from popularity and the often isolating feelings of adolescence."
(06/30/2003)
"A considerably darker, more psychological book than its predecessors, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX" occupies the same emotional and storytelling place in the Potter series as THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK held in the first Star Wars trilogy. It provides a sort of fulcrum for the series, marking Harry's emergence from boyhood....Although it takes a while for the gears of this immensely long novel to mesh fully, the author's bravura storytelling skills and tirelessly inventive imagination soon take over, braiding together the mundane and the marvelous, the psychological and the allegorical with consummate authority and ease."
(06/21/2003)
"Is HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX as good as the other Harry Potter books? No. This one is actually quite a bit better. The tone is darker, and this has the unexpected -- but very pleasing -- effect of making Rowling's wit and playful black humor shine all the brighter."
(07/11/2003)
"With this book Rowling enters the realm of the coming-of-age novel. The children are fifteen. They have begun pairing and unpairing; moods swing; they see once-idealized adults more in the round. One of the restrictions of the novels has been how focused they are on the three friends, concentrating on the partiality of their experience and their abilities to reflect on it. Rowling makes it quietly clear that Harry's intermittent alertness to the dangers of his own gifts recapitulates the arrogance of his parents' generation, which came from self-assurance built on good looks, physical prowess, intelligent courage, and confident leadership. If, as Rowling wrote earlier, it is not our abilities but our choices which make us what we are, then this book revolves around the implications of choosing and the unforeseeable consequences of even our best decisions."
(07/04/2003)
"Rowling cheerfully turns her own conventions on their ears, and the result is a surprisingly enjoyable ride....Rowling has managed to make Harry and his fate a bit less predictable, which, in the fifth of a seven-volume series, is a very good thing."
(September 2003)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and it was written by Mary Grandpre (Illustrator), J. K. Rowling. This edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is June 2003 and it has a suggested retail price of $34.99. There are pages in the book and it was published by Scholastic. The 10 digit ISBN is 0439567610 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780439567619. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.