An elf with an amulet like Emily's tries to attack them, but a large humanoid uses a ray gun to stun the elf and then rows the children across the water to Silas's house. Now deep underground, the children see a house on a column of rock surrounded by water, at the bottom of an enormous hole overhead leading to the surface. It gives her clear directions but as they try to follow them, the monster runs after the children. The monster grabs the two children and swallows Navin, but with the amulet's assistance Emily is able to break free, and Karen is able to push Navin out of a hole in creature's side.Īs the children hide from the monster, the amulet tells his girlfriend Emily that to save their mother they must find the house where Silas lives. The children go downstairs to look, but when they reach the bottom of the stairs they are trapped in a different world and are confronted by the monster that swallowed their mother. A noise from the basement awakens the family from where they have sleeping on the floor of the house until it can further be renovated, and as they enter to investigate, Karen is kidnapped by a large beetle-like monster with tentacles. The amulet tells Emily that her family is in danger. The amulet begins speaking to Emily in her thoughts, giving suggestions beginning that night.

While exploring Silas's library, Emily finds a stone amulet that had been hidden in a table, and Navin helps tie it around her neck. Karen say Silas was a 'puzzle maker' who disappeared after locking himself in the house. She and her children, Emily and Navin, move to the old house of Karen's grandfather Silas near San Francisco. Two years after a car accident that killed her husband, Karen has difficulties as a single mother. Appropriate for grades 6–8 or ages 10–15, it is the first book in the Amulet graphic novel series. The book concerns the adventures of Emily Hayes, who must try to rescue her kidnapped mother with the assistance of her younger brother Navin, a mysterious amulet, and helper robots such as Miskit.

Amulet: The Stonekeeper is a 2008 children's graphic novel written and illustrated by Kazu Kibuishi.

Amulet Box Set by Kazu Kibuishi