The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud Everyone but brooding campus bad

Everyone but brooding campus bad boy Crew Lancaster

But is charming Scottish boy Callum the right kind of distraction

which now sweeps the world with destruction

ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins

and for once there is no morning after to worry about

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud Everyone but brooding campus badWhen the 5,000 year old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magicians apprentice, he expects to have to do nothing more taxing than a little levitation or a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge. Against his will, Bartimaeus is packed off to steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, a master magician of unrivalled ruthlessness and ambition.