Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Paperback

Lessons in an old textbook, memories drawn out of the past and a school year running short of safety shape the sixth Harry Potter novel. This Bloomsbury Children's Books paperback carries 535 pages and a reading suggestion of eleven and up. The penultimate volume spends much of its length on preparation rather than action, setting out what the final book will have to resolve while keeping the familiar structure of terms, classes and the space between them. Rowling balances the darker material with ordinary school life, which is part of why the shift in the closing chapters registers so strongly. At a glance: • Sixth novel in the Harry Potter series • 535 pages leading directly into the final instalment • Reading guidance of around eleven years and older • Standard paperback edition for the complete series set For readers working through the series in order and for gift sets, published by Bloomsbury Children's Books and available from Boipoka.