Series
Magic Shop
Bruce Coville · 5 novels · 2 short stories · 1982–2008
Bruce Coville's Magic Shop books each send a different kid into Mr. Elives's strange antique shop, where an ordinary-looking item turns out to carry real magic and consequences. The Monster's Ring opens the series with a boy who buys a ring to scare a bully on Halloween, only to find he can genuinely transform into a monster. Later entries repeat the pattern with new objects and new children, tied together by the shop and its owner rather than a continuing plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Magic Shop at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s1
- 1990s4
- 2000s2
Shape
5 novels · 2 short stories
1 author
reads like:fantasycoming of ageour worldcontemporaryfunnymiddle grade
Mood
Bright and intense: 71% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Mask of Eamonn Tiyadodarkest · most intense
- Jennifer Murdley's Toadbrightest
- Juliet Dove, Queen of Lovecalmest