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Would you class E.L. Konigsburg's Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth with these?

I was just describing my memories of that book to

spatch this afternoon! I have not read it since fourth or fifth grade. It doesn't strike me personally as the same thing, because what I remember of it is more of a folie à deux friendship where the witchcraft is the medium of their relationship and the problems in it have more to do with control and loneliness than make-believe, also I don't believe it ends tragically; one of the girls is keeping a secret about her family, but it's not a melodramatic one, and the consuming game of the witch and her apprentice gives way to the two girls reapproaching one another on more even terms.