Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Format:Hardcover Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is not

Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen—he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation

I’m going to miss so much

Their affections grew

a local lifeguard who completely takes her breath away

walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him—and Juniper—forever

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Format:Hardcover Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is notROWLING, J[oanne] K[athleen]. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. [London]: Bloomsbury [2005]. 8vo, 607pp. Black cloth with spine stamped in gold. A fine copy with expected page ageing in original color pictorial dust jacket. First edition, being the variant with the dust jacket and binding for the adult market (roughly 10% of the first printing were bound in this fashion). The fifth book in J. K. Rowlings bestselling Harry Potter series, and the