Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Book 1): Volume 1

Harry Potter spent ten long years living with Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, an aunt and uncle whose outrageous favoritism of their perfectly awful son Dudley leads to some of the most inspired dark comedy since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But fortunately for Harry, he's about to be granted a scholarship to a unique boarding school called THE HOGWORTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY, where he will become a school hero at the game of Quidditch (a kind of aerial soccer played high above the ground on broomsticks), he will make some wonderful friends, and, unfortunately, a few terrible enemies. For although he seems to be getting your run-of-the-mill boarding school experience (well, ok, even that's pretty darn out of the ordinary), Harry Potter has a destiny that he was born to fulfill. A destiny that others would kill to keep him from.

Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 09/01/1998
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780590353403
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 26759 / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone


Award: Bookseller's Choice - Winner
Award: Nevada Young Readers' Award - Winner
Award: Colorado Blue Spruce Award - Winner
Award: Sasquatch Award - Winner
Award: Great Stone Face Book Award - Winner
Award: West Virginia Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/20/1998 pg. 220
Booklist 09/15/1998 pg. 230
School Library Journal 10/01/1998 pg. 145
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/1999 pg. 783
Kirkus Review - Children 09/01/1998 pg. 1292
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1998 pg. 73 - Superior,Well Above Average
ALA Notable Children's Books 01/01/1999 pg. 1308
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/1998 pg. 27
Booklist 05/15/1999 pg. 1691
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 51
Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 978
Booklist 11/15/2000 pg. 632
Booklist 05/01/2001 pg. 1611
Booklist 04/15/2002 pg. 1416
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1999 pg. 73 - Superior,Well Above Average
Entertainment Weekly 12/05/2014 pg. 73

About the Author

J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular Harry Potter books. After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and started writing the series of seven books and the first was published as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the UK in 1997. The series took another ten years to complete, concluding in 2007 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

To accompany the series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short companion volumes for charity, Quidditch Through the Agesand Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. She also collaborated on the writing of a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which was published as a script book.

Her other books for children include the fairy tale The Ickabog and The Christmas Pig, which were published in 2020 and 2021 respectively and have also been bestsellers. She is also the author of books for adults, including a bestselling crime fiction series.

J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honors for her writing. She also supports a number of causes through her charitable trust Volant and is the founder of the children's charity Lumos.

To find out more about J.K. Rowling visit jkrowlingstories.com.

Mary GrandPré has illustrated more than twenty beautiful books, including The Noisy Paint Box by Barb Rosenstock, which received a Caldecott Honor; Cleonardo, the Little Inventor, of which she is also the author; and the original American editions of all seven Harry Potter novels. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Wall Street Journal, and her paintings and pastels have been shown in galleries across the United States. Ms. GrandPré lives in Sarasota, Florida, with her family.