When Harry Met Harry
HOUDINI AND ME
By Dan Gutman
The best magicians are a little like the best priests, or novelists. They may be skeptical about the trade they ply nothing tests your faith quite like knowing how the tricks are done but they’re never cynical. At some level, some piece of them still wants to believe in the mystery.
Harry Mancini is a fifth-grade boy who lives with his widowed mother in uptown Manhattan. Specifically, he lives at 278 West 113th Street in the very house where a century ago Harry Houdini spent the last two decades of his life. That fact, plus the similarity of their names, means that one Harry is obsessed with the other. And maybe vice versa, since magic is at the heart of Dan Gutman’s new middle grade novel, “Houdini and Me.”
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