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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
By the year 1919, Harry Houdini was known throughout the world as a master magician and escape artist. Having conquered the stage, he set out to rule the screen, appearing in a series of thrillers built upon his almost supernatural powers. Culled from film archives and private collections, this film includes all of Houdini's surviving films as an actor, rare footage of actual handcuff and straitjacket escapes, and a wealth of historical information....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
By the year 1919, Harry Houdini was known throughout the world as a master magician and escape artist. Having conquered the stage, he set out to rule the screen, appearing in a series of thrillers built upon his almost supernatural powers. Culled from film archives and private collections, this film includes all of Houdini's surviving films as an actor, rare footage of actual handcuff and straitjacket escapes, and a wealth of historical information....
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments in show business, the story of magician Harry Houdini comes to life through a review of his greatest tricks and most amazing feats.
10) The magician and the spirits: Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead
Author
Publisher
Viking, Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After an illusionist on stage saws into his assistant, Harry Houdini's wife hires Molly Murphy to be part investigator/part bodyguard and uncover whether NYC's masters of illusion are simply up to their tricks or if there truly is something much more treacherous going on.
13) Harry Houdini
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of magician Harry Houdini.
Author
Series
Audacity Jones volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Audacity Jones and her best friend, Bimmy, are on their way to New York City, with Cypher, who is now a detective in the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and their assignment involves Harry Houdini and the illusion he is planning--and it will take all of Audie's skills, and the help of her clever cat Min, to prevent the performance from being sabotaged.
Author
Series
Houdini & Nate mysteries volume 1
Houdini and Nate mysteries volume 1
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 1
Houdini and Nate mysteries volume 1
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nathaniel, aided by the famous magician Harry Houdini, plots to unmask a phony spirit advisor attempting to relieve the boy's great-aunt of her fortune.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Harry Houdini. Say his name and a number of things come to mind. Escapes. Illusions. Magic. Chains. Safes. Live burials. Close to a century after his death, nearly every person in America knows his name from a young age, capturing their imaginations with his death-defying stunts and daring acts. He inspired countless people, from all walks of life, to find something magical within themselves. This is a book about a man and his extraordinary life,...
Author
Series
Time spies volume 4
Publisher
Mirrorstone
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Alex and his sisters travel back in time to the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, where they work with young Harry Houdini to track down a thief.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Draws on newly uncovered archives to reveal Houdini's secret work as a spy for the United States and England, his post-war efforts to expose the fraudulent activities of spiritualist mediums, and the plot organized by Arthur Conan Doyle to have him murdered.
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