Reading Level: 6.7 Interest Level: 5-9 Accelerated Reader: reading level: 6.7 / points: 14.0 / quiz: 32081 / Reading Counts!: reading level:5.9 / points:18.0 / quiz:Q14870 Lexile 940L
The Dursleys were so mean that 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
Potter 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, Gilderoy
Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom,
and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.
But
each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and
someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could
it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly
be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one
everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself?