Scholastic Harry Potter contest
Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter series, announced that it will launch its Open Book Tour Sweepstakes starting July 30. Scholastic will select 1,000 winners who will receive a pair of tickets to an evening with author J.K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall in New York on Oct. 19. Rowling will read from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," answer questions about the series and sign copies of the book.
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The J.K. Rowling Open Book Tour will include three events to be held for school children in Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York City, in addition to the event at Carnegie Hall for sweepstakes winners. School districts in the host cities will select which schools and which children will participate. There are no public tickets available for these school events.