The Unofficial Harry Potter Vocabulary Builder: Learn the 3,000 Hardest Words from All Seven Books and Enjoy the Series More

By Sayre Van Young

ENJOY EVERY WORD OF HARRY S ADVENTURELEARN 1,000s OF NEW VOCABULARY WORDS The Harry Potter series takes readers on the greatest literary adventure of all time. However, as young readers tear through the seven books, they encounter thousands of new words. What should they do when facing an unknown word? Skip over it and miss that bit of the storyand also pass up the opportunity to learn the word s meaning? This fun and handy reference offers a better solution. It allows readers ages 8 14 to quickly find clear and accurate definitions of the more advanced English language vocabulary used in the Harry Potter series. "The Unofficial Harry Potter Vocabulary Builder" includes: Over 3,000 easy-to-understand definitions Entertaining sample sentences for every word Pronunciation key plus notes on usage 60 fun and wizardly illustrations Page reference in a Harry Potter book for each word Includes words from all seven booksSorcerer s Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows Important note to readers: This book is an independent and unauthorized fan publication. No endorsement or sponsorship by or affiliation with J. K. Rowling, her publishers or other copyright and trademark holders is claimed or suggested. "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569756848
• ISBN13: 9781569756843
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher

Customer Reviews

Useful

The effort to publish this book will reward readers as they navigate through Harry Potter novels. Useful to understand R.K. Rowling's choice of words such as English words, slang and mystical terminology. Graphics also help visualize many words. This book does not work magic but if you want to improve you vocabulary you still need to make the effort.

Harry Potter Great Book

The book was in great shape...and it came very quickly. It was a gift and the person loved it.

Great book in concept

This is a great book in concept, but it did not work in application. I brought this book for my son who is almost 9 yr old. He is reading the Harry Potter books, and had questions about some of the words. I thought that this book would help him. But he was too lazy (not interested) in putting down the Harry Potter books in order to look up a vocabulary word in this book. The author should have either made a version of the Harry Potter books with a glossary in the back of the book or followed the format of the The Wizard of Oz Vocabulary Builder where the words are defined on the actual page they are used at the bottom. Or another option would have been to make a Harry Potter Study with weekly vocabulary tests set up as the words are introduced in the series. Or the book could have followed the Vocabulary Cartoons: SAT Word Power with pictures from the movies or cartoons -- something that would have made the book an interest to read in itself, because the kids are not using it as a reference.

Harry Potter Vocabulary Reference Book

We bought the Harry Potter series for our private high school library. The vocabulary book is probably on an 8th grade level and is like a dictionary giving the words and definitions. Each word is referenced to a specific volume, page and word in one of the Potter books. The definitions are clear, comprehensive and fun. There are a lot of "regular" words and not just "Potter-specific" words that will be useful to help struggling readers understand what's going on in the books.