<P> Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was the recipient of several awards . The American Library Association listed the novel among its 2000 Notable Children's Books, as well as its Best Books for Young Adults . In 1999, Booklist named Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as one of its Editors' Choices, and as one of its Top Ten Fantasy Novels for Youth . The Cooperative Children's Book Center made the novel a CCBC Choice of 2000 in the "Fiction for Children" category . The novel also won Children's Book of the Year British Book Award, and was shortlisted for the 1998 Guardian Children's Award and the 1998 Carnegie Award . </P> <P> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 1998 Gold Medal in the 9--11 years division . Rowling also won two other Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban . The Scottish Arts Council awarded their first ever Children's Book Award to the novel in 1999, and it was also awarded Whitaker's Platinum Book Award in 2001 . In 2003, the novel was listed at number 23 on the BBC's survey The Big Read . </P> <P> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets continues to examine what makes a person who he or she is, which began in the first book . As well as maintaining that Harry's identity is shaped by his decisions rather than any aspect of his birth, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets provides contrasting characters who try to conceal their true personalities: as Tammy Nezol puts it, Gilderoy Lockhart "lacks any real identity" because he is nothing more than a charming liar . Riddle also complicates Harry's struggle to understand himself by pointing out the similarities between the two: "both half - bloods, orphans raised by Muggles, probably the only two Parselmouths to come to Hogwarts since the great Slytherin ." </P> <P> Opposition to class, death and its impacts, experiencing adolescence, sacrifice, love, friendship, loyalty, prejudice, and racism are constant themes of the series . In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry's consideration and respect for others extends to the lowly, non-human Dobby and the ghost Nearly Headless Nick . According to Marguerite Krause, achievements in the novel depend more on ingenuity and hard work than on natural talents . </P>

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