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The golden compass / Philip Pullman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pullman, Philip, His dark materials ; bk. 1.Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.Edition: 1st edDescription: 399 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0679879242
  • 9780679879244
  • 9780375823459
  • 037582345X
  • 9780375838309
  • 0375838309
  • 0375938303
  • 9780375938306
  • 1451787111
  • 9781451787115
  • 9780440418320
  • 0440418321
  • 0440238137
  • 9780440238133
  • 0679893105
  • 9780679893103
  • 0345413350
  • 9780345413352
  • 0613810368
  • 9780613810364
Uniform titles:
  • Northern lights
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Part one: Oxford -- Part two: Bolvangar -- Part three: Svalbard.
Awards:
  • Carnegie Medal, 1995
Summary: Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy Pullman Philip 1 Available 33111008860484
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time." Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach.

Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.

Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra : a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.

But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...

A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction
Published in 40 Countries

"Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years." --The Washington Post

"Very grand indeed." --The New York Times

"Pullman is quite possibly a genius." --Newsweek

Don't miss Philip Pullman's epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials!
** THE BOOK OF DUST **
La Belle Sauvage
The Secret Commonwealth

Originally published as: Northern lights.

Prequel: Once upon a time in the North.

Sequel: The subtle knife.

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

Part one: Oxford -- Part two: Bolvangar -- Part three: Svalbard.

Carnegie Medal, 1995

Reading Counts RC: Z: 6.7 L930: 24.

Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 7.1 19 Quiz 15085 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.

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