query: What 1980's kids book series about boy learning magic spells?
positive_passages.docid: 65836
positive_passages.text: Identify a story about a teen boy who learns to use magic with his lizard companion
negative_passages.docid: 139623
negative_passages.text: Book series where they collect either stones or gems
negative_passages.docid: 34355
negative_passages.text: Fantasy story series about a boy from a village who has adventures around the world
negative_passages.docid: 56769
negative_passages.text: Series about proxy space battles via implanted computers in kids
negative_passages.docid: 66400
negative_passages.text: Children's fantasy book where two boys enter a parallel world through the principal's office where math and poetry were magic
negative_passages.docid: 53035
negative_passages.text: Are there wizarding schools in the rest of the "magical" world?
negative_passages.docid: 17658
negative_passages.text: Children's science fiction book series and tv show
negative_passages.docid: 86467
negative_passages.text: Old kids show from the 80's about two kids with a magical compass that took them to another world
negative_passages.docid: 87219
negative_passages.text: Can't seem to find a childhood book that involved Egyptian gods
negative_passages.docid: 118738
negative_passages.text: Need help to find a sci-fi collection I read at school (mid 80s)
negative_passages.docid: 39689
negative_passages.text: Book about mages who can harvest magical energy from the environment
negative_passages.docid: 113427
negative_passages.text: Looking for the name of a book with a man and woman attacked by wolves and a young gypsy in danger (possibly for practicing magic)
negative_passages.docid: 105909
negative_passages.text: Story with a boy who has to conjure apples, and learns magic with the Socratic method?
negative_passages.docid: 59307
negative_passages.text: What spells, enchantments and charms do we know were taught in the first year of Hogwart's curriculum?
negative_passages.docid: 50868
negative_passages.text: Fantasy book series about people who are accompanied about animals representing their "soul"
negative_passages.docid: 9642
negative_passages.text: Name of a fantasy book where male character finds a magic absorbing artifact
negative_passages.docid: 92394
negative_passages.text: Looking for a YA book about a boy that learns to use powers from an adept in a weird house that appears abandoned from the outside