About the book: 2023 / Fifth-grader Artem Bylinkin couldn’t even imagine how jokes about excellent student Venya Sundukov would turn out for him. Now Artyom is haunted by spiders everywhere, and he himself is aging every day. Is Venya really a sorcerer? Artem and his friends have to steal a mysterious black book from an excellent student and get rid of the curse before it’s too late.