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Author Pullman, Philip, 1946- author

Title The golden compass / Philip Pullman
Published New York, New York : Dell Yearling, 2001
©1995

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Description 399 pages ; 20 cm
Series His dark materials ; bk. 1
Pullman, Philip, 1946- His dark materials ; bk. 1
Contents Part 1: Oxford: -- Decanter of Tokay -- Idea of north -- Lyra's Jordan -- Alethiometer -- Cocktail party -- Throwing nets -- John Faa -- Frustration -- Spies -- Part 2: Bolvaitgar: -- Consul and the bear -- Armor -- Lost boy -- Fencing -- Bolvangar lights -- Daemon cages -- Silver guillotine -- Witches -- Part 3: Svalbard: -- Fog and ice -- Captivity -- Mortal combat -- Lord Asriel's welcome -- Betrayal -- Bridge to the stars
Summary Overview: 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
Notes "A Yearling book
Interest age level : Ages 10-17
Subject Parry, Will (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.
Belacqua, Lyra (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.
Uncles -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
Spirits -- Juvenile fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Familiars (Spirits) -- Juvenile fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Fantasy.
SUBJECT Arctic regions -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114145
Arctic regions -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114145
Genre/Form Suspense fiction
Steampunk fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Fantasy fiction
Young adult fiction
Juvenile works.
Fantasy fiction.
Author Beck, Ian, 1947- illustrator
ISBN 0440418321
9780440418320
9781439567944
1439567948
Other Titles Northern lights