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

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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.

It contains all words that can be found in any dictionary or wiki site. I thought it would have words like Horcrux and so forth. I thought it would be interesting to have such a reference. Not worth it.

I teach fifth grade and spend most of our read aloud time reading Harry Potter to my students. I started the HP series while I was still in college and love how it still sparks kids today. This dictionary is awesome. My students love making lists of words we hear in HP and then looking them up. We then add them to our HP vocab wall and some even show up on our weekly spelling/vocab quizes! The fact that the dictionary is HP related is what makes it fun. A regular dictionary = boring...put HP on it and it becomes "NO! It's my turn!"

I do wish the author had used specific examples from the book instead of just referencing them, but I'm sure copyright had something to do with that.

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.

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.

I expected this book to use references from the Harry Potter books. Instead the words (which are vocabulary words taken from the Harry Potter books)are used in sentences that the authors made up based on some inane story of their own. Kids that love Harry Potter will not be inspired to learn vocabulary based on this book.

Got the sample to check it out and was impressed. Planned to use it for a lit study. I needed to be able to search this book. You can search the sample but not the full book. Now i have to go page by page to find the words for each book in the series. Beyond ticked! Why have a feature in the sample but not in the full verison!!!

Just the fact that as my 4th grade daughter reads the HP books and stumbles across a word she can pull this book out and look it up is great! Yes, she could go grab her dictionary that does the same thing, but for her there is just something about grabbing the HP dictionary instead. She actually looks up the word and it is small enough to have with her at all times while reading the series. She has enjoyed it...and hey if it gets her to use it, I'm all for it. At first I was disappointed because the made up words from HP were not in there (I understand now why they aren't) and I didn't think my daughter would use it because it was more like a dictionary that anything else. I was pleasantly surprised that she did love it. I give it two thumbs up. I wouldn't however recommend it for older students, I just don't think it would have the same affect on them as it would a 3rd-5th grader.

This is an excellent dictionary of words that are featured in the Harry Potter Novels. If you collect all the books having to do with Harry Potter, you will need this one.

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