Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Rowling, J.K.
ISBN-13 9780590353427
ISBN-10 059035342X
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc., 1997
Genre: Vampire Fantasy
Reading Level: 880 Lexile
Interest Age: 10-18
Reader's Annotation:
Harry's parents are dead and his aunt and uncle treat him like dirt. He lives in a closet and life is not something he thinks is great until one day when a letter comes from a place called Hogwarts.
Plot Summary:
Harry Potter lost his parents when he was a baby and he now lives with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. He is treated like a child no one wants to be around and no one remembers his birthday. Everything seems like normal until one day Harry receives an invitation from a school called Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Dursleys try very hard to keep Harry there, but eventually have no choice but to let Harry go.
Harry finds out that he is famous in the wizarding world. His mother died at the hands of the darkest wizard in the world saving his life and giving him a scar in the shape of a lightning bolt on his forehead. Harry is learning so much about the world he has been kept from. He finds out that he is the only one who can solve some of the world's problems and stop Lord Voldemort, who killed his parents, from taking over the world in evil.
Critical Evaluation:
This book is well written and full of interesting information and action. It starts a little slow when Harry is at the Dursley's, but as soon as he goes into the magical world, there are so many new things to learn. The reader is brought into this world of talking pictures and a hat that talks. The plot keeps the reader interesting and at the end, the reader is ready for a new year.
Each Harry Potter book follows Harry for one year of school. He still spends the summers with the Dursley's home. The book builds to hold the most action at the end. It follows a classic plot line which is not bad but makes the book more predictable than others. Harry Potter has become a phenomenon and all seven books have been made into feature films.
About the Author:
J.K. Rowling was born in 1965 to James and Anne Rowling and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent. She went to Exeter University and received a degree in French and Classics. She started writing Harry Potter waiting for a train and spent five years outlining all of the books before she started writing the first book. She married, had a baby and divorced before the first Harry Potter was published in 1997.
When the book was such a big hit, Rowling quickly wrote the next six books. She now lives in Edinburgh with her husband and three children. Rowling has been awarded many different awards for the Harry Potter books and all of her books are now movies. There is also a Harry Potter theme park. These books took the world by storm.
http://www.jkrowling.com/en_US/#/about-jk-rowling
Curriculum Ties:
Read Aloud books
Harry Potter lost his parents when he was a baby and he now lives with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. He is treated like a child no one wants to be around and no one remembers his birthday. Everything seems like normal until one day Harry receives an invitation from a school called Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Dursleys try very hard to keep Harry there, but eventually have no choice but to let Harry go.
Harry finds out that he is famous in the wizarding world. His mother died at the hands of the darkest wizard in the world saving his life and giving him a scar in the shape of a lightning bolt on his forehead. Harry is learning so much about the world he has been kept from. He finds out that he is the only one who can solve some of the world's problems and stop Lord Voldemort, who killed his parents, from taking over the world in evil.
Critical Evaluation:
This book is well written and full of interesting information and action. It starts a little slow when Harry is at the Dursley's, but as soon as he goes into the magical world, there are so many new things to learn. The reader is brought into this world of talking pictures and a hat that talks. The plot keeps the reader interesting and at the end, the reader is ready for a new year.
Each Harry Potter book follows Harry for one year of school. He still spends the summers with the Dursley's home. The book builds to hold the most action at the end. It follows a classic plot line which is not bad but makes the book more predictable than others. Harry Potter has become a phenomenon and all seven books have been made into feature films.
About the Author:
J.K. Rowling was born in 1965 to James and Anne Rowling and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent. She went to Exeter University and received a degree in French and Classics. She started writing Harry Potter waiting for a train and spent five years outlining all of the books before she started writing the first book. She married, had a baby and divorced before the first Harry Potter was published in 1997.
When the book was such a big hit, Rowling quickly wrote the next six books. She now lives in Edinburgh with her husband and three children. Rowling has been awarded many different awards for the Harry Potter books and all of her books are now movies. There is also a Harry Potter theme park. These books took the world by storm.
http://www.jkrowling.com/en_US/#/about-jk-rowling
Curriculum Ties:
Read Aloud books
Book Talking:
What house would you want to be in?
Challenging Issues:
If this book were to be challenged, I would go through the selection process with the challenger as well as explain the rationale for the book. There are many good qualities in this book that could be reason to have it in a collection.
Why Read this Book:
This book catches the reader and keeps them through all the pages. The whole series is wonderful and deserves a place in any library. Children, teens and adults can all enjoy the world of Harry Potter and his magical friends.
What house would you want to be in?
Challenging Issues:
If this book were to be challenged, I would go through the selection process with the challenger as well as explain the rationale for the book. There are many good qualities in this book that could be reason to have it in a collection.
Why Read this Book:
This book catches the reader and keeps them through all the pages. The whole series is wonderful and deserves a place in any library. Children, teens and adults can all enjoy the world of Harry Potter and his magical friends.
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