Title: Born of illusion
Description: "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"--
Subjects: Magicians, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Psychic ability, Identity (Philosophical concept), Nineteen twenties, Swindlers and swindling, Mothers and daughters, Mediums, Secret societies, Identity, History, Children's fiction, Identity, fiction, Magicians, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, New york (n.y.), history, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
People: Harry Houdini (1874-1926)
Time periods: 20th century