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. Format: Hardcover, Jacketed Binding: Jacketed Hardcover / Adhesive ISBN: 9780590353403 Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Pub Date: September 1998 Fiction / Nonfiction: Fiction Ages: 8 & Up Grades: 3 and up Imprint: Arthur A. Levine Books Subjects: Adventures and Adventurers, Challenges and Overcoming Obstacles, Cleverness, Cooperation and Teamwork, Courage, Bravery, Heroism, Determination and Perseverance, Friends and Friendship, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Witches, Humility, Orphans, School Life Genre: Adventure, Fantasy Language: English Guided Reading Level: GR Level V Lexile® Measure: 880L Return Restrictions: Non-Strippable