The golden compass
Pullman, Philip, 1946-2019
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A war is brewing in Lyra's world--a battle between those who would keep people in ignorance and those who are willing to fight for true freedom. Lyra is thrust into the middle of the conflict when her uncle Asriel comes to Oxford, fomenting rebellion, and when her best friend, Roger, suddenly disappears. Lyra learns that Roger was kidnapped by a shadowy organization that steals children and, it is rumoured, experiments on them. To find him, she will travel to the cold, far North, where armoured bears and witch clans rule . . . and where her uncle Asriel is attempting to build a bridge to a parallel world. What Lyra doesn't know, mustn't know, is that her actions will have consequences not just in her world, but in all the worlds beyond.
Main title:
The golden compass / Philip Pullman.
Author:
Pullman, Philip, 1946-, author
Work:
Imprint:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019]©2005
Collation:
399 pages ; 21 cm.
Series title:
His dark materials ; 1.
Notes:
"Now an HBO series"--Cover.Originally published as: Northern Lights. London: Scholastic Children's Books, 1995.
Audience:
Interest age level: 12+ years.
ISBN:
9780593178553 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
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BRN:
361961