Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all, Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, a spirit who haunts the girls' bath- room, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister. But each of these seems a minor annoyance when the real trouble begins, and someone or something — starts turning Hogwarts students to stone ...

The sequel to the award-winning bestseller Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. --front flap