num_pages: 196
description: 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.
language: English
title: Black and Blue Magic
titlecomplete: Black and Blue Magic
characters: Harry Houdini Marco, Mike Wong, Oscar Konkell, Lee Furdell, Mr. Wong, Tarzack Mazzeeck, Hal Brighton, Clarissa Clyde, Lorna Marco, Olive Furdell
genres: Middle Grade, Childrens, Novels, Juvenile, Young Adult, Kids, Magic, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 970
places: San Francisco, California
awards: awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Backinprint.Com