A Picture Book of Harry Houdini

A Picture Book of Harry HoudiniBy: David A. Adler, Michael S. Adler Illustrator: Matt Collins Series: Picture Book Biography Harry Houdini astounded audiences around the globe with his death defying acts and illusions. With his wife, Bess, often by his side, he freed himself from ropes, handcuffs, straitjackets, and prison cells. Once he even made a ten thousand pound elephant vanish into thin air! Yet Harry's life was not always so glamorous. When he was a boy, he shined shoes and

has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties

and scientific research

even learning opposites like up and down

the familiar and perpetually unpleasant owner of Breakfast Bandits

The Jolly Christmas Postman

the blueprint for how to get a reluctant teen to spend time with you (and why it really matters that you persevere)

It provides rare insight into the contradictory world of psychoanalytic training and treatment and a foundation for our understanding of psychiatry and mental health

Lion may be King of the jungle

By: Denise Vega | Illustrator:  Erika Rodriguez Medina   Adela loves everything about her family's mariachi band--except that she isn't in it

Before she knows what’s happening

“ — New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones

this charming