Author J. K. Rowling
Illustrators Thomas Taylor (UK)
Mary GrandPré (US)
Genre Fantasy
Publishers Bloomsbury (UK)
Arthur A. Levine/
Scholastic (US)
Raincoast (Canada)
Released 26 June 1997 (UK)
1 September 1998 (US)
Book no. One
Sales unknown
Chapters 17
Pages 223 (UK)
309 (US)
ISBN 0-7475-3269-9
Harry Potter is an average bespectacled 11 year old boy who has lived with the Dursley family ever since his parents died in a car crash.For some reason the family has always mistreated him.On his 11th birthday a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid hands him a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.Harry learns that his parents were wizards and were killed by an evil wizard Voldemort, a truth that was hidden from him all these years.He embarks for his new life as a student, gathering two good friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger along the way.He loves his new school which turns to be the sought of place he always wanted to be in.Eventually he becomes the seeker for his Quidditch team(Quidditch is a popular wizard sport).They soon learn that something very valuable is hidden somewhere inside the school and Voldemort is very anxious to lay his hands on it.
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