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Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926. Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments in show business, the story of the famous magician, Harry Houdini, comes to life through a review of his greatest tricks and most amazing feats, complete with index, photos, and author's notes.
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
Author
Language
English
Description
On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed...
10) Harry Houdini
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Shares the life story of the famous escape artist, including his immigrant origins, how he began his career doing card tricks for extra cash, and how he became the world's most well-known magician.
11) Purrfectly dead
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While planning a weekend for one of billionaire Zelda Zoranksky's rescue charities, Foxtrot, along with a telepathic car and shapeshifting dog, must solve a murder, deal with the secrets of a mysterious serpentine ghost and avoid a creatively blocked rock star.
13) The magician and the spirits: Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1250L
Language
English
Description
"Famed illusionist Harry Houdini embarks on a quest to investigate spiritual phenomena and the possibility of communication with those on the "other side.""--
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.
15) Harry Houdini
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, this book profiles the life of Harry Houdini, from his humble beginnings as a child living in poverty, to his transformation into history's most famous magician and escape artist. When Ehrich emigrated to the US, his family couldn't afford to send him to school. That didn't stop him from learning-- he became a genius with cards, and even a trapeze artist! But while working as a locksmith, he...
18) The ways we hide
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee being called...
