Download or read book The Snitch Houdini and Me written by Johnny Virgil and published by Jv Enterprises. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the 70's wasn't easy. Only parental threats could steer Virgil and his two younger brothers away from trouble-- or directly into it. Join him on an irreverent romp as he recounts the stories that made him what he is today: an unimportant cog in a vast, corporate financial services machine.
Download or read book I Am Harry Houdini written by Brooke Vitale and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 8x8 based on an episode from the PBS KIDS animated television series Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum starring Harry Houdini. Based on the children's book series Ordinary People Change the World by New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos, the series will introduce kids to inspiring historical figures and the character virtues that helped them succeed. Brad is too scared to spend a full night in the museum's nature exhibit so the Secret Museum sends him and his friends to meet Harry Houdini! This episode-based 8x8 will focus on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves.
Download or read book Houdini Logic VHS SPECIAL EDITION written by Cahjli Symes and published by Cahjli S Symes. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Jorge Goldwasser: A disillusioned, underground chemist, dealing with depression due to the death of his fiancée. Back in 2010, Jorge was developing a chemical which was originally intended to be a cure for insomnia and night terrors. However, Jorge made a deadly discovery about his cure which attracted the attention of an international shipping tycoon. Once Jorge was hired to work with the tycoon's family, the operation goes south horrifically fast. As events begin to transpire, Jorge is drawn into a deadly game of sociopolitical manipulation, cannibalism, the occult, crimes against humanity, and ends up being used as a pawn for domestic terrorism by an elite pedophile ring. This edition includes the heartbreaking conclusion to the most deranged book of 2017!
Download or read book The Great Houdini written by Monica Kulling and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Houdini was a great escape artist, but perhaps his greatest trick was becoming the famous magician that we have come to know. As a child, Houdini worked hard--and even quit school--to help support his family. But his dream always was to become a great magician and performer. He practiced day and night, thinking up new tricks and more and more dangerous stunts. His intense ambition paid off, and soon Harry Houdini became known worldwide! This kid-appealing Step 3 traces Houdini's life from his poor beginnings to his eventual success as the most famous mystical magician and escape artist of all time.
Download or read book A Picture Book of Harry Houdini written by David A. Adler and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Houdini astounded audiences around the globe with his death-defying acts and illusions. With his wife, Bess, often by his side, he freed himself from ropes, handcuffs, straitjackets, and prison cells. Once he even made a ten-thousand-pound elephant vanish into thin air! Yet Harry's life was not always so glamorous. When he was a boy, he shined shoes and did odd jobs to help make ends meet. But a career in magic was always in the cards for Harry. Readers will be mesmerized by this captivating biography of one of the most celebrated escape artists and magicians in history.
Download or read book Houdini written by Kenneth Silverman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American self-liberator, Europe's eclipsing sensation, world's handcuff king and prison breaker -- nothing on earth can hold Houdini a prisoner.
Download or read book Escape written by Sid Fleischman and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See:
Download or read book Houdini written by Jason Lutes and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have escaped out of more handcuffs, manacles, and leg shackles than any other human being living." Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so over ninety years since his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous feats. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason Lutes and artist Nick Bertozzi reveal Houdini's life and influence: from the anti-Semitism Houdini fought all his life, to the adulation of the American public; from his hounding by the press, to his loving relationship with his wife Bess; from his egoism to his insecurity; from his public persona--to the secret behind his most amazing trick! And it's all in graphic form, so it's fresh, original, and unlike anything previously published about this most fascinating of American showmen.
Download or read book Harry Houdini Master of Magic written by Robert Kraske and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography recounts the life of Harry Houdini from his boyhood through his years as an escape artist and master showman.
Download or read book Nothing Happened written by Molly Booth and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT'S MUCH ADO . . . ABOUT EVERYTHING. This modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing takes place at the idyllic Camp Dogberry, where sisters Bee and Hana Leonato have lived their whole lives. Their parents own the place, and every summer they look forward to leading little campers in crafts, swimming in the lake, playing capture the flag and Sproutball, and of course, throwing legendary counselor parties. This year, the camp drama isn't just on the improv stage. Bee and longtime counselor Ben have a will-they-or-won't-they romance that's complicated by events that happened -- or didn't happen -- last summer. Meanwhile, Hana is falling hard for the kind but insecure Claudia, putting them both in the crosshairs of resident troublemaker John, who spreads a vicious rumor that could tear them apart. As the counselors juggle their camp responsibilities with simmering drama that comes to a head at the Fourth of July sparkler party, they'll have to swallow their pride and find the courage to untangle the truth, whether it leads to heartbreak or happily ever after.
Download or read book Harry Houdini written by Rita T. Mullin and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and accomplishments of the legendary escape artist.
Download or read book Houdini Speaks Out written by Arthur Moses and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revealing new insights, this ground-breaking book vividly recreates Houdini's solitarian lectures which he presented from 1922 until his untimely death in 1926. The reader becomes involved in understanding his struggles to reach into the afterlife to contact his deceased mother during an era filled with deceptive spirit mediums. Each of the fifty glass lantern slides that Houdini used to highlight his lectures are painstakingly recreated and matched to his original lecture text."--Amazon.
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright written by Val Andrews and published by Ulverscroft. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, two areas of mystery are linked: the exploits of Sherlock Holmes and the secrets of master escapologist, Harry Houdini. Doctor Watson's collaborator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, finds himself drawn into the world of the fake psychics and Houdini is anxious for Holmes to unmask the perpetrators who prey on the innocent believers. Holmes's investigations lead him to some surprising locations, including a Ruritanian castle.
Download or read book The Houdini Box written by Brian Selznick and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Open this book and come face-to-face with the greatest magician of all time -- Harry Houdini!" Victor is forever trying to escape from locked trunks, walk through walls, and perform any number of Houdini's astonishing magic tricks...without success. Then -- amazingly -- he actually meets his idol and begs Houdini to explain himself. A mysterious locked box is the magician's only answer, and Victor is left to wonder: Does the box contain the secrets to the most famous magic tricks ever performed? As spellbinding as a virtuoso performance by Houdini himself, this illustrated storybook for all ages combines captivating mystery and mesmerizing historical fiction, and as a bonus, offers a biographical note about Houdini. Equally strong as a read-aloud or a read-alone book, "The Houdini Box" conjures up the pure pleasure of an old-time magic show.
Download or read book Houdini written by Tom Lalicki and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging biography about the famous magicians and escape artist Harry Houdini's personal life and public exploits. Born Ehrich Weiss, Houdini started performing at an early age and followed his ambitions as they led him around the world, performing amazing stunts and illusions that baffled the crowds. The book recounts many of his most famous tricks. Grades 5-9.
Download or read book Houdini s Book of Magic written by Ben Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harry Houdini written by Elizabeth MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
