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Subject: title request
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From: goldenberg%istari.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM  (Ruth Goldenberg)


>From: infinet!cgf@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Faylor)
>Subject: Trying to remember a book title
>Date: 17 Oct 85 18:57:39 GMT
 
>When I was in the third grade (about 24 years ago) I read a book
>that sort of got me started on science fiction/fantasy.  It involved
>some kids who found an old coin which granted them wishes... sort
>of.  The coin was so old that they had to wish for everything twice
>to get a complete wish, otherwise they only got half of what they
>wished for.
 
I'm pretty sure you're after "Half Magic", whose author's name I've
forgotten. I think I saw it in a posting from several days ago,
perhaps that Sept. book list?

reg