Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site caip.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!caip!goldenberg%istari.DEC From: goldenberg%istari.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: title request Message-ID: <220@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 23:43:47 EST Article-I.D.: caip.220 Posted: Fri Oct 25 23:43:47 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:37:34 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 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