Harry Potter definitely borrowed elements from the two Groosham Grange books: a boring history teacher who is actually a ghost, a teacher who is a werewolf, a magical school for children, the main character having a female and a male friend, they go to school by train, .

If you are under 16, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before submitting or ask your parent/guardian to submit on your behalf. Y como dicen en la Granja Groosham: "Somos francamente malignos, pero ¿qué hay de malo en ser maligno? David gets expelled from his school and he is a disappointment for his crazy and old-fashioned parents. Una de las cosas que más disfruto de este libro es que el autor -a pesar de ser un libro para niños- no escatimó en incluir y describir temas bastantes oscuros. The experience of getting to Groosham Grange was a terrifying and eye opening journey for each child.Everything about this book is heightened – including the ‘choice’ of taking a blade to the heart or accepting the ring and joining the school. I thought this book was very captivating and intriguing as it was focused around David Eliot's disappointing schooling experiences that led him to a paranormal world.

Certain children are born with magic talent but they need to attend this school to unlock their magic. Sent to Groosham Grange as a last resort by his frustrated parents, thirteen-year-old David Eliot quickly discovers that his new boarding school is very peculiar.I find that portraying the main friendship of the book as male/female is excellent to focus in on gender dimensions as primary school children are often male versus female but this book challenges that idealogy. David Eliot is 10 year old boy who does not know he is a sorcerer until his father recieves a strange letter in the mail inviting David to a special school. It is story about a boy David Eliot who is seventh son of seventh of seventh son and thus born with magical abilities of which he is completely unaware of. Anthony Horowitz’s classic gothic page-turner is brought to life in full colour in this hilarious graphic novel adaptation. Me encantó todo acerca de este libro y la granja Groosham, pero siento que justo cuando estaba empezando la historia, se termina.

and later the French Prix Européen du Roman Pour Enfants ("European Award for Children's Fiction") in 1993. One of the joys of Twitter, incidentally, is that it allows readers to contact me directly and these 140-character exchanges are as valuable to me as what the professional critics have to say. New pupils are made to sign their names in blood; the French teacher disappears every full moon; the assistant headmaster keeps something very chilling in his room. tengo demasiados problemas con el Middle Grade, no logro conectar con los personajes y todo lo que quiero es regañar a los protagonistas por todas las imprudencias que comenten me convertí en señora tan paulatinamente que no me di cuenta; y aunque no conecté del todo con David no sentí la necesidad de regañarlo porque considero que todas sus reacciones fueron bastante normales. Harry Potter todavía no se publicaba y la Granja Groosham fue la primera vez que me encontré con una escuela poco usual y que se quedó en mi corazón.You may think this is similar to Harry Potter and in a way it does involve boarding school, wizards, initiation, etc - but it is quite original and it understands witchcraft in the more traditional sense (less fun and more Middle Ages style). Raro, son 3 chicos que los manda a una escuela internado llamada Granja Groosham, donde con los nombres es muy obvio que son los maestros, pero te lo mantienen “oculto”, este entretenida, pero si te quedas como con ganas de saber que paso después del cumpleaños, que clases que todo ya una vez que.

A wickedly funny story by the number one bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, with brand new illustrations by Tony Ross. Cuando iba en primaria leí El grial oculto, sin saber que se trataba de una segunda parte y logré disfrutarlo mucho, de hecho, aquel libro significa mucho, fue por él que descubrí el gusto por la lectura. Kilgraw, the vampire speaking to David to convince him to join them in their witch coven school: "All right, I admit it. David has six older siblings, though we never meet any of them, making him the seventh son of the seventh son. After being expelled again from school, he receives an invitation to attend an unusual school located on an island.It turns out the children all have one thing in common – they are the seventh son of the seventh son (or in Jill’s case, seventh daughter) and on their thirteenth birthday they will have to choose between joining the school or death. It acts as a GCSE school to fool the authorities and even the parents who put their children in Grange are not informed about the involvement of magic.