#3. Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone
AUTHOR - Rowling J.K.
GENRE - Children's Fiction
The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 26
June 1997 by Bloomsbury. It was published in the United States the following
year by Scholastic Corporation under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone. It won most of the British book awards that were judged by children and
other awards in the US. The book reached the top of the New York Times list of
best-selling fiction in August 1999 and stayed near the top of that list for
much of 1999 and 2000. It has been translated into at least 73 other languages
and has been made into a feature-length film of the same name, as have all six
of its sequels. The novel has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it
the third best-selling novel of all time.
It
is a story about Harry Potter, an orphan brought up by his aunt and uncle
because his parents were killed when he was a baby. Harry is unloved by his
uncle and aunt but everything changes when he is invited to join Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and he finds out he's a wizard.
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