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Synopsis (From Barnes and Noble)
You'd think that someone with a name like Harry Houdini Marco would be deft and skillful, but Harry could only occasionally catch even an easy fly ball without making some dumb error. On top of that, most of his friends' families were moving to the suburbs. It would have been a long, dreary summer, but then a Mr. Mazeeck showed up and turned out to be more than he seemed.
This now classic book was first published by Atheneum in 1966. It was selected by Scholastic Books for inclusion in the Arrow Book Club and later republished in a Dell Yearling edition in 1988.
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Twelve-year-old Harry Houdini Marco is awkward and clumsy, bearing little resemblance to his magician namesake, until he acquires the gift of flight.
(My fifth grade teacher read us this book. She always started our day with a chapter from whatever book she was reading us. We all loved this one so much and when my kids reached grade school age I couldn't wait to find a copy and read it to them. Maybe sometime I will read it to Haily and Tyler and eventually to Tucker when he is bigger too. Remember to click on the title and on the author's name for more information.)
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