There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

Little does he know, but this is one of the important lessons Harry Potter will learn when he goes away to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. At the beginning of the story, all Harry knows is that he is a very lonely orphan living with relatives who hate him. Especially his cousin Dudley whose favorite activity is beating Harry up. Harry lives in a closet under the stairs and has to wear his cousin's old ragged clothes dyed gray.

...a world of flying broomsticks and magic wands, where owls deliver the mail and goblins guard the bank.

But strange things happen when Harry is mad or afraid. Like the time he finds himself on the school roof without warning or when he makes the glass in the boa constrictor's cage disappear at the zoo. Then, on his eleventh birthday, he is tracked down by Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts, and even his horrible Uncle Vernon can't keep the truth away.

Harry is a wizard. His mother and father were wizards and they were killed by an evil wizard when Harry was a baby. So Harry enters a world of flying broomsticks and magic wands, where owls deliver the mail and goblins guard the bank. He makes great friends at Hogwarts and tries out the magical powers and delectable candies of the wizard world, including Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans from luscious strawberry to disgusting earwax.

But there are dangers lurking at Hogwarts, like the troll someone let in at Halloween. The ghosts didn't help, either. It was always a nasty shock when one of them glided suddenly through a door you were trying to open. And what about the three-headed dog in the locked third-floor corridor and the illegal dragon Hagrid is hiding in his hut? And what could have killed the unicorn in the woods?

It's like a roller coaster ride through a fun house!

Harry and his good friends, Ron, Hermione, and Neville, must solve the mysteries of Hogwarts before it's too late, before the power-hungry wizard who killed Harry’s parents comes back for him!

The book pulls all its multicolored plot threads together in a final finger nail-biting showdown with the epitome of evil. . . . there was a face, the most terrible face Harry had ever seen. It was chalk white with glaring red eyes and slits for nostrils, like a snake.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is funny, exciting and magical for everyone. If you liked The BFG or anything else by Roald Dahl, you’ll love this book even more. If you ever wanted to be a wizard, like I did (still do!), this is what you always wanted your school to be like.

This book pulls you in and makes you believe in all its crazy, magical nooks and crannies. It's like a roller coaster ride through a fun house, with each turn bringing surprises, some funny, some frightening, and loop-de-loops where you can’t be sure if you're upside down or not. But you'll love every spine-tingling, scalp-prickling, funny bone-tickling minute!

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