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|author=Curtis Jobling
|title=Young Houdini: The Magician's Fire
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= As it happens, several facts about the childhood of the man who became world famous for his daring stunts and death-defying shows have been recorded. But fiction is the world of what-if, where anything can be imagined, anything can happen. So what if all those 'facts' were actually a cover, made up to conceal Houdini's earliest exploits? What if, as a boy, he ended up far away from his family and his native Hungary and all alone in New York, having to earn a few meagre pennies each day by shining shoes? And what if his fascination with theatre life led him into dangers even greater than anything he was able to create in his later stage act?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192734741</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=M G Harris
|summary=Claire is excited and she's ''nagging'' her mother to tell her what her father has been doing in his laboratory, but her mother is no wiser than she is and tells Claire that she will simply have to wait until her father is ready to show her what he's been doing. He's a famous inventor and Claire knows that whatever it is will be exciting. For now all she can do is to tell her pen friend - and be patient.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124590</amazonuk>
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