Vanishing ACT

by Dorothy Nafus Morrison

While researching tricks for the magic act she is planning for her junior high school talent show, Jo finds a strange device that can make objects vanish, but she does not realize how dangerous it can... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689315139
• ISBN13: 9780689315138
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8

Customer Reviews

Great Story

When Joanna Rodgers puts on a magic performance in the school talent show, it dosen't go the way she and her assistant Kim planed, and ends becoming a comedy act. When she finds out that she is one of the three acts to go on for another talent show, she wants a new trick to imprees the audience. When she goes to Mr. Paisley, owner of Druids Cave, the local magic shop, Jo begs to go into the back room to find a better trick than the ones she already has. She dosen't find anything in her price range that strikes her fancy. Mr. Paisley has to attend to some customers and leaves Jo alone in the back room. She decides to check the roll-top desk one more time. She ends up finding a secret drawer in the back of the desk. Inside is something called Transmuter. Inside is a brightly colored shawl, directions, and a gray box with rainbow-colored buttons on it as well as white and black. When she tries it out at home, she puts the shawl on her math book, and presses the buttons on the control box. When she finishes, she notices nothing unusual about her room. When she looks to where her math book and shawl are, she can feel them, but not see them. She does the second set of buttons, and the book and shawl return. Jo later discoveres that whatever the shawl touces goes invisible. She wants to memorize the code, so she looks at the directions, and puts them in her pocket. When she throws the shawl over the chair with a teddy bear on it, she is in contact with the shawl, and vanishes herself, AND THE DIRECTIONS This is a highly detailed story when Jo is invisible about a hole in the air when she walks through the rain, or swimming in the Pacific Ocean, and even when she becomes invisible. It is one of the greatest stories I have read.