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Author
Series
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
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
Language
English
Description
As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she's the mastermind of their act. Ultimately, controlling her surroundings and eluding traps of every kind helps her keep a lingering trauma at bay. Yet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Before Harry Houdini (1874 1926) became the greatest magician in the world, he was just little Ehrich Weisz, a Hungarian-born immigrant who moved to America with his family and performed stage tricks for a little extra cash. He started off with card tricks and then eventually began performing the escape acts that would make him famous. Known for his daring and death-defying illusions, he would do some of the greatest tricks ever: escaping from a...
Author
Series
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
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
Young Houdini volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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 friendshipto the limits.
10) Mister Miracle
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick--and escape death itself? Something has gone horribly wrong with the perfect life that Scott and his wife Big Barda have made for themselves on Earth. With war raging between their homeworlds of Apokolips and New Genesis, Scott's cruel...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Escaping Apokolips is hard...but escaping as a hero will take a miracle. Luckily for Scott Free, everyone calls him Mister Miracle! Okay, no one calls him that...yet. Once Scott pulls off his foolproof plan and becomes the first person to escape the fiery pits of the planet Apokolips, he s sure to be considered one of the greatest superheroes of all time&at least among his friends. The only problem is: his plan never involved falling in love with...
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