Who Was Harry Houdini?
Who Was Harry Houdini?
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Annotation: Biography of the famous magician Harry Houdini, who was also a movie star and a pioneer pilot.
Genre: [Biographies]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #328943
Format: Perma-Bound Edition
Special Formats: Chapter Book Chapter Book
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright Date: 2002
Edition Date: 2002 Release Date: 07/22/02
Illustrator: O'Brien, John,
Pages: 105 pages
ISBN: Publisher: 0-448-42686-2 Perma-Bound: 0-605-34158-3
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-448-42686-0 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-34158-6
Dewey: 921
LCCN: 2002004374
Dimensions: 20 cm.
Subject Heading:
Houdini, Harry,. 1874-1926. Juvenile literature.
Houdini, Harry,. 1874-1926.
Magicians.
Escape artists. United States. Biography. Juvenile literature.
Magicians. United States. Biography. Juvenile literature.
Language: English
Reviews:
Horn Book (Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2003)

These short, illustrated books capture the lives of famous individuals with accessible prose. Each book spends considerable time explaining the childhood experiences of its subject and manages to give readers a sense of the individual's personality and motives. All but Tallchief and Houdini have bibliographies. Timeline. [Review covers these Who Was...? titles: Who Is Maria Tallchief?, Who Was Amelia Earhart?, Who Was Harriet Tubman?, Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?, and Who Was Harry Houdini?.]

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Horn Book (Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2003)
Word Count: 11,825
Reading Level: 5.8
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.8 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 61654 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:3.4 / points:5.0 / quiz:Q32836
Lexile: 780L
Guided Reading Level: W
Fountas & Pinnell: W

Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the details of Houdini's life that kids will really want to know about and illustrated throughout with beautiful black-and-white line drawings.

Illustrated by John O'Brien.

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