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The Amulet of Samarkand: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One by Jonathan Stroud, published by Miramax / Hyperion

Bartimaeus, a five-thousand-year-old djinni, is one of the most charismatic and entertaining characters to be conjured up in a long time. He's the star of this grand-scale fantasy adventure ... or so he'd have you think. There's also twelve-year-old Nathaniel, an ambitious but inexperien...