Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K. Rowling, 1997
Fantasy Young adultContemporary fiction
A boy who has never been wanted discovers he is famous in a world he has never seen, and that a castle of moving staircases is where he belongs.
Feels like wonder. About friendship.
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The courage nobody applauds is the kind you spend on a friend.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. J.K. Rowling.Rowling wrote much of it as a single mother in Edinburgh, scribbling in cafés; after a dozen rejections, Bloomsbury's chairman gave the manuscript to his eight-year-old daughter, who demanded the rest.
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- What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone like?
- Feels like wonder. About friendship.
- What should I read after Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone?
- If you liked Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, try Looking for Alaska (John Green), The Raven Boys (Maggie Stiefvater) and Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak).
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The case for being seventeen and certain nothing can end you.
When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
Looking for Alaska · John Green
Why the fullest love can feel, from the inside, like grief.
She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.
The Raven Boys · Maggie Stiefvater
The friend everyone counts on, and what it costs to share him.
That’s Douglas. I count on him for everything. If I was stranded on a desert island and could only take one thing, it’d be Douglas. We can share him if you want.
Where the Wild Things Are · Maurice Sendak
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