Used. Paperback. An orphaned boy trading a cupboard under the stairs for a castle full of cantankerous ghosts and floating candles might sound like a hard sell, but J. K. Rowling’s modern classic makes wizarding school feel startlingly like home. When a barrage of parchment finally breaks through his aunt and uncle's maddening mail blockades, Harry discovers that he is not just an ordinary nuisance, but a famous first-year wizard bound for Hogwarts. Alongside a brilliant bookworm and a chronically loyal best friend, he soon learns that surviving adolescent chemistry is infinitely more complicated when the subject is actual alchemy.