For fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee, Gary D. Schmidt's The
Wednesday Wars, and Jack Gantos's Joey Pigza Books comes a
hilarious and poignant slice-of-life novel from critically
acclaimed author and poet Peter Johnson.
When an author comes to speak to his class in a rundown area of
Providence, Houdini decides to make money by writing his own novel.
Houdini chronicles his life as he and his friends start a
leaf-raking business, befriend Old Man Jackson (a Vietnam War
veteran with a seriously intimidating dog), and get even with the
neighborhood bully, Angel. But it's hard to find a way to write
about his dad losing his job or his brother, Franklin, who is first
reported missing in action in Iraq and then still seems to be
missing when he comes home.
No matter what, Houdini and his friends rely on one another to
figure out how to do the right thing. And Houdini discovers that
writing and thinking about his friends and family lets him get to
know them in completely new ways.
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