Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -- J. K. Rowling, Hardcover

The summer after his first year at Hogwarts is worse than ever for Harry Potter. The Dursleys of Privet Drive are more horrible to him than ever before. And just when he thinks the endless summer vacation is over, a creature named Dobby the house-elf shows up issuing a grave warning to Harry not to go back to school or disaster will happen Of course, Harry has to go back- and he does so in grand style, in a flying-car magicked by his friends Ron and Percy Weasley. But getting back to Hogwarts isn't the cure Harry expects it to be. Almost immediately a student is found turned to stone, and then another. And somehow Harry stands accused. Could Harry Potter be the long-feared heir of Slytherin?Harry and friends Hermione and Fred are stretched to their limits in a desperate fight against Draco Malfoy and his gang, the hideously stuck-up new professor Gilderoy Lockheart, the malevolent owner of the diary of Tom Riddle, giant spiders, and perhaps even...Hagrid This is the book that proves J.K. Rowling is a talent that's here to stay

Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 07/01/1999
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780439064866
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 32081 / Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Award: Colorado Blue Spruce Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/15/1999 pg. 1690
Publishers Weekly 05/31/1999 pg. 94
Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 10
Kirkus Review - Children 06/01/1999 pg. 888
New York Times 06/20/1999 pg. 20
School Library Journal 07/01/1999 pg. 99
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2000 pg. 822
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1999 pg. 299 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2000 pg. 1341
ALA Notable Children's Books 01/01/2000 pg. 1360
Booklist 04/15/2000 pg. 1546
People Weekly 07/24/2000 pg. 43
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 299 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Library Journal 12/01/1999

About the Author
Mary GrandPré has illustrated more than twenty beautiful books, including The Noisy Paint Box by Barb Rosenstock, which received a Caldecott Honor; Cleonardo, the Little Inventor, of which she is also the author; and the original American editions of all seven Harry Potter novels. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Wall Street Journal, and her paintings and pastels have been shown in galleries across the United States. Ms. GrandPré lives in Sarasota, Florida, with her family.

J.K. ROWLING is the author of the seven Harry Potter books, which were first published between 1997 and 2007. The enduringly popular adventures of Harry, Ron, and Hermione have sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. Alongside the Harry Potter series, she also wrote three short companion volumes -- Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard -- which were published in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos. In 2016, J.K. Rowling resumed Harry's story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which she wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, and which is now in theaters across the world. In the same year, she wrote the screenplay for the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first in a series featuring magizoologist Newt Scamander. She is also the author of a stand-alone novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, and, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, writes the Strike detective series. In 2020, J.K. Rowling returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, the royalties from which she is donating to groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. She lives in Scotland with her family, and is at her happiest alone in a room, making things up.