Audacity Jones Steals the Show

  As always, readers, I am honored that you would spend time with my books. Merci!

  KIRBY LARSON is the acclaimed author of the Newbery Honor book Hattie Big Sky and its sequel, Hattie Ever After; the Dogs of World War II books: Duke, Dash, which won the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and Liberty; The Friendship Doll; Dear America: The Fences Between Us; as well as the first Audacity Jones story, Audacity Jones to the Rescue.

  She has also cowritten two award-winning picture books: Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival and Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle.

  Kirby lives in Washington State with her husband and Winston the Wonder Dog.

  Also by Kirby Larson

  NOVELS

  Audacity Jones to the Rescue

  Dash

  Duke

  Liberty

  Dear America: The Fences Between Us

  The Friendship Doll

  Hattie Big Sky

  Hattie Ever After

  PICTURE BOOKS

  WITH MARY NETHERY

  Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle

  Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival

  Copyright © 2017 Kirby Larson

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Larson, Kirby, author.

  Title: Audacity Jones steals the show / Kirby Larson.

  Description: First edition. | New York : Scholastic Press, 2017. | Series: Audacity Jones ; Book 2 | Summary: Audacity Jones and her best friend, Bimmy, are on their way to New York City, with Cypher, who is now a detective in the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and their assignment involves Harry Houdini and the illusion he is planning—and it will take all of Audie's skills, and the help of her clever cat Min, to prevent the performance from being sabotaged.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2016030468 | ISBN 978-0-545-84065-1

  Subjects: LCSH: Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926—Juvenile fiction. | Magic Tricks—Juvenile fiction. | Orphans—Juvenile fiction. | Cats—Juvenile fiction. | Adventure stories. | New York (N.Y.)—History—1898-1951—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926—Fiction. | Magic tricks—Fiction. | Orphans—Fiction. | Cats—Fiction. | Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | New York (N.Y.)—History—1898-1951—Fiction. | GSAFD: Adventure fiction. | LCGFT: Action and adventure fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.L32394 As 2017 | DDC 813.54 [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016030468

  First edition, February 2017

  Jacket design by Carol Ly

  Jacket art by Brandon Dorman, © 2017 by Scholastic Inc.

  e-ISBN 978-0-545-84068-2

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