TITLE: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: JK Rowling, Mary GrandPre'
GENRE: Adventure, Fantasy
THEME: Courage, Leadership, Responsibility
AWARDS: None
CHARACTERS: Harry, Hagrid, The Dursleys, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore, Neville, Draco
PUBLISHING DATE AND COMPANY: Scholastic, 1998
SUMMARY: In this book, it starts out with when Harry was a baby, and how the wizarding world came to think of him as an icon. It is ironic because he is treated as a second class citizen in the home he grew up in, always second to his cousin Dudley. All of that changes on his 11th birthday when Hagrid comes and tells him "Yer a wizard Harry." After that his world is never the same, while with Hagrid he learns that he is not in fact poor as his Aunt and Uncle tell him, but that he has quite a bit of money saved up that his parents left him. When he firsts gets to the school, he learns that even though he doesn't know much about magic, everyone knows a lot about him. He seems to have some struggles with getting in trouble, but what 11 year old boy doesn't? Throughout this book (and the six others in the series) Harry, Hermione and Ron get into a lot of trouble, but also do alot of good, along with some of their other classmates.
This is a good book to have in a free reading section of the classroom, because it gives the students the opportunity to read a book that is famous in its own right, but also due to the major movie franchise that follows it. I think that Harry Potter books are a good way to spark imagination in children, because they can think, well what if this could happen?
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