Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Harry Potter has spent his eleven years sleeping in a cupboard under the stairs, scolded and starved by the Dursleys, who fear anything strange. Then the letters begin arriving, and no locked door can keep them out. On his eleventh birthday a giant named Hagrid crashes through the door with the truth: Harry is a wizard, famous in a world he never knew, with a place waiting at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Past a wall at King's Cross, with owls, moving staircases, flying broomsticks and spells that actually work, Harry finds friends, lessons and, for the first time, a home. Yet whispers follow him through the castle corridors, about the night his parents died and the power that marked him.