Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Orphaned Harry Potter has spent ten miserable years living under the stairs at 4 Privet Drive with the Dursleys, who have told him nothing about his past. On his eleventh birthday, a giant named Hagrid arrives to inform him that he is a wizard and has been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. At Hogwarts, Harry makes his first real friends in Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, discovers he is famous in the wizarding world for surviving an attack by the dark wizard Voldemort as an infant, and uncovers a plot to steal the Philosopher's Stone, a legendary object capable of producing the Elixir of Life. J.K. Rowling's 1997 debut novel launched the bestselling book series of all time.