by Mary Pope Osborne · Random House Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780307980489
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«Hurry Up, Houdini!» is the children's adventure and fantasy novel by Mary Pope Osborne, published by Random House in hardback (144 pages, in English).
Jack and Annie travel back in time to Coney Island to fulfil a mission from Merlin: find Harry Houdini, master of escapology, and discover the secret of his greatness. But the illusionist eludes everyone; to track him down, the siblings will need determination, cunning and a little magic, in an adventure that combines mystery with historical setting.
The book is number 22 in the Magic Tree House: Merlin Missions series, with illustrations by Sal Murdocca; it was previously numbered as Magic Tree House #50.
Recommended for children aged 7 to 10 who are starting to read chapters and for those already following the Magic Tree House series.
Mary Pope Osborne is an American author of children's books and audiobook narrator. She is best known as the author of the Magic Tree House series, which as of 2017 sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, including for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. She had 3 other siblings, and moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, and her first book was published in 1982. She went on to write a variety of other children's and young adult books before starting the Magic Tree House series in 1992. Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the Magic Tree House series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will.
