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Article: Jonathan Stroud: Ptolemy's Gate: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three.(Young adult review)(Book review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
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- March 1, 2006
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* Jonathan Stroud Ptolemy's Gate: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three 503 pp. Miramax/Hyperion 1/06 ISBN 0-7868-1861-1 $17.95 (Middle School, High School)
This closing installment is the best yet, as the fates of the djinni Bartimaeus, the magician John Mandrake (true name: Nathaniel), and the commoner Kitty Jones grow ever more tightly entwined. The situation in Stroud's alternate-universe London has gone from bad to worse, with an unpopular overseas war draining men and resources; the ruling magicians corrupt; and the populace increasingly desperate. Now in hiding, Kitty is secretly learning all she can about Ptolemy, an ancient-Egyptian scholar whom Bartimaeus ...