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I’m not sure what you mean

It does have a lot of that same vibe! His other series, the Magic Shop series, is the classic “The Devil sells you a cursed object” trope, but a lot of fun. Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, was another one that I loved a lot as a kid

This was one of my favorite books when I was in school. Bruce Coville wrote a lot of my favorites from that time period