Interest Level
Grades PreK - 3
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 5.3
Lexile Measure®: 840L
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: Not Available
Genre
- Historical Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Magic and Supernatural
- Historic Figures
Reading Quiz Programs
About This Book
Ten-year-old Victor has always idolized the famous magician Harry Houdini. After Houdini's death, Victor inherits a secret box from Houdini's widow with the initials E.W. engraved on it. Years later Victor discovers the true power of the box.About the Authors or Illustrators
Brian Selznick is the illustrator of the Caldecott Honor winner, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, and the New York Times-Best Illustrated Walt Whitman: Words for America, both by Barbara Kerley, as well as the Sibert Honor winner When Marian Sang, by Pam Muñoz Ryan. In 2008 he won the Caldecott Medal for the groundbreaking title, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
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