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Harry Houdini by Kathryn Kilby Borland is an exciting story of a young boy finding the life of a magician. He travels around the country finding, work, food, money, and his love – magic.
This story tells the life of Harry Houdini, who was a becoming magician who exceeds greatly in his older years. This tale takes place in the years of 1874 through 1926.
The main character in my book was Harry. He was a brilliant young boy who really had a big heart for his family. Harry was very courageous too. He left his family at a young age to provide them with enough money, so they could survive. This young man was also hardworking and determined. He worked at any place for money or food, that his employers would give him. Houdini also practiced his talents and tricks …show more content…

Harry is born in Budapest, Hungary in 1974, but moves to America in his younger age. As a young boy a circus comes to his town of, Appleton, Wisconsin, and he was very impressed by the acts. He makes a little circus with five other friends, but they stop it after a little while. He leaves his home while he is about thirteen, to find work to help his family financially. While he is on the look for work he runs into a village that happens to have a circus. He asks for work, and his question was answered. But shortly later, moves to New York to reunite with his family at age thirteen. Harry had joined up with a friend, and they called themselves the Brothers Houdini. They put on several shows. One day his partner quit because he said it was just too much work. So his brother decided to take the place of his friend. He later gets a job as a magician, but quits after a year or two. He travels around the country finding job wherever he can. But soon comes back home, for his father is dying. He then goes back to his dream and performs with his later wife, Bess. And they life happily after, as a magician couple. But Houdini later dies from a stunt, at the age of

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