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The Amulet of Samarkand
by Jonathan Stroud
Magical adventures really don’t get any better than this one, which alternates points of view between of a most engaging and irreverent jinni, Bartimaeus, and Nathaniel, the young magician who must enslave him in order to do magic at all. Demons and magicians are age-old enemies but somehow these two can never quite bring themselves to destroy each other when they get the chance. Set in an alternate world where England is run by magicians. All of the Bartimeus books live up to the first, too.