Middle Grade Fantasy chapter book. A Lamp/ Light that loses power as it gets more ornate. Children need this power and turn to stone as the light loses power. From 1990s.

[Stephanie]

Read this book in the 1990s

[Kris]

Stephanie, how does the lamp/ light become more ornate? What does it look like? Where is it located?

[Capn]

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Can you give us more details? Is it like a lamppost, or more like a table lamp? Or is it like a floating glowing orb or something? (Made of what? Glass? Metal? Fire?)