Anna Van Housen is the illegitimate daughter of Harry Houdini, or so her mother claims. The thing is, Anna has real powers of fortune telling and the ability to sense the feelings of others. When Anna begins to have visions of her mother in danger, she wonders if she can continue to keep her dangerous abilities a secret.
year: 2013
call number/section: 1000
subjects: houdini, harry, 1874-1926, fiction, mother-daughter relationship, fiction, magicians, identity (psychology), parapsychology, new york (n.y.), fiction, 20th century, magic, fiction, psychic ability, mediums, occult, historical fiction
Editions
Brown, Teri J
Anna Van Housen is the illegitimate daughter of Harry Houdini, or so her mother claims. The thing is, Anna has real powers of fortune telling and the ability to sense the feelings of others. When Anna begins to have visions of her mother in danger, she wonders if she can continue to keep her dangerous abilities a secret.
Schools: 1
Brown, Teri J
Balzer + Bray (2013)
Set in 1920s New York City, this is the story of budding magician Anna Van Housen, who has spent her whole life playing sidekick to her faux-medium mother--and trying to hide the fact the she actually possesses the very abilities her mother fakes.
Schools: 4