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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J. K. Rowling · 1999 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

A convicted mass murderer has broken out of the wizarding prison, and the hooded guards sent after him, which feed on happiness, are posted at the school gates and affect the boy worse than anyone there. He is told the escaped man handed his parents to their killer and is now coming for him. Rowling's third took the Whitbread Children's Book Award and is the volume most often called the series' best.

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