My Lists
Featured Lists
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2006
Gr 5-7 Lalicki, author of "Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini" (Holiday House, 2000), mines his vast knowledge of the magician for this first novel in the series. In the summer of 1911 in New York City, 13-year-old Nathaniel G. Makeworthy Fuller is working as a clerks assistant in a Fifth Avenue hat store. He and his widowed mother live with his wealthy great-aunt. After Houdini buys a hat, leaving his calling card but no money, Nate is sent to the escape artists home to present the bill. Houdinis wife befriend...Log In or Sign Up to Read More