Black and Blue Magic

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Atheneum, 1966 - Juvenile Fiction - 186 pages

Harry Houdini Marco has to cope with the assorted characters in his mother's boarding house and face his friends' moving to the suburbs. His life seems dreary until he conceives a plan for escaping to the suburbs and then a strange, temporary boarder furnishes him with a magic gift.

Contents

• Contents: 3
• THE MEDICINE MESS: 14
• HARRY TO THE RESCUE: 26

About the author

Zilpha Keatley Snyder was born in Lemoore, California on May 11, 1927. She received a B.A. from Whittier College in 1948. While ultimately planning to be a writer, after graduation she decided to teach school temporarily. However, she found teaching to be an extremely rewarding experience and taught in the upper elementary grades for a total of nine years. After all of her children were in school, she began to think of writing again. Her first book, Season of Ponies, was published in 1964. She wrote more than 40 books during her lifetime including The Trespassers, Gib Rides Home, Gib and the Gray Ghost, and William's Midsummer Dreams. She has won numerous awards including three Newbery Honor books for The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm and the 1995 John and Patricia Beatty Award for Cat Running. She died of complications from a stroke on October 08, 2014 at the age of 87.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Black and Blue Magic
• Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Illustrated by: Gene Holtan
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Atheneum, 1966
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 1, 2009
• ISBN: 0689718489, 9780689718489
• Length: 186 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic; Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / General