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Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
In 1889, the ship Etruria departs Liverpool, England, for New York carrying Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her crime-solving partner, Thomas, a famous escape artist, and a cold-blooded killer.
Author
Series
(Simon Bennett),Young Houdini volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Young Harry Houdini's efforts to perfect his magic tricks are put on hold when his mentor, Herbie, disappears, prodding Harry and his two best friends, Arthur and Billie, to embark on a dangerous investigation that pushes their skill and their friendship to the limits.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 810L
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of Harry Houdini, whose dramatic style and amazing physical abilties made him one of the most famous magicians and contortionists of all time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
"Some people believed he was actually a wizard with secret powers. But Houdini knew his only "secret powers" were hard work and imagination. This is the story of the poor boy who grew up to be the most famous magician in the world. He was fearless and determined to amaze his audiences, and there seemed to be no limit to the risks that The Great Houdini would take."--Page 4 of cover.
48) Born of illusion
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1920s New York City, this is the story of budding magician Anna Van Housen, who has spent her whole life playing sidekick to her faux-medium mother--and trying to hide the fact the she actually possesses the very abilities her mother fakes"--
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest, sponsored by Scientific American. Her supernatural...
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mary McGarvie is a beautiful con artist who, with the help of her young daughter, fools audiences into believing she is psychic. The legendary magician Harry Houdini comes to town with a skeptic's challenge. He is going to give $10,000 to anyone who can correctly 'channel' his mother's dying words. Mary accepts the challenge. Houdini enters into a passionate affair with the charming clairvoyant even as he prepares for the most dangerous stunt of his...
52) The demon curse
Author
Series
(Simon Bennett),Young Houdini volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In 1886, a secret organization dedicated to the overthrow of evil sends young escape artist Harry Houdini and his friends to New Orleans to help a local community of fishermen accused of using voodoo magic to put the city's mayor in a zombified coma.
Author
Series
Step-up books volume 26
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
Describes the daring feats of adventurers Blondin, Harry Houdini, Annie Oakley, Harry Rieseberg, and Evel Knievel.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume s. 50-51
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
K-3.
Hurry up, Houdini!: "Join Jack and Annie as they as they meet one of the world's most famous illusionists - Harry Houdini!"--
High time for heroes: "Jack and Annie are magically transported to mid-1800's Thebes where they are saved from a dangerous accident by Florence Nightingale!"--
55) Houdini
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated biography of Harry Houdini, discussing his difficult early life, his struggles to earn a living as a magician, and his rise to fame as an escape artist.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time, Conan Doyle had given up his lucrative writing career, killing off Sherlock Holmes in the process, in order to concentrate on his increasingly manic interest in Spiritualism. Houdini, who regularly conducted seances in an attempt to reach his late mother, was also infatuated with the idea of what he...
