His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) Paperback - 2001
by Philip Pullman
Now available in true digest format comes Pullman's bestselling fantasy of Lyra Belacqua and her daemon familiar, Pantalaimon. When her uncle returns from the North with tales of mystery and danger, his visit sets off a chain of events that draws Lyra into the heart of a terrible struggle.
First line
Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
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In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, "nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing--victims of so-called "Gobblers"--and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.
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- Title His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1)
- Author Philip Pullman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yearling Books, New York, New York
- Date 2001-05-22
- ISBN 9780440418320 / 0440418321
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.73 x 5.25 x 0.97 in (19.63 x 13.34 x 2.46 cm)
- Ages 10 to UP years
- Grade levels 5 - UP
- Reading level 930
- Library of Congress subjects Missing persons, Kidnapping
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007276310
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Ingram Children's Advance, 05/01/2001, Page 79
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