His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) Hardcover - 1996
by Philip Pullman
Pullman introduces readers to a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, of Redwall, wherein lives a half-wild, half-civilized girl named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars of Jordan College is about the shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors.
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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 Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, New York
- Date 1996-04-16
- Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780679879244 / 0679879242
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 8.56 x 5.87 x 1.31 in (21.74 x 14.91 x 3.33 cm)
- Ages 12 to 17 years
- Grade levels 7 - 12
- Reading level 930
- Library of Congress subjects Kidnapping, Fantasy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95033397
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- ALA Best Books Young Adults, 01/01/1997, Page 1294
- ALA Notable Children's Books, 01/01/1997, Page 1305
- Booklist, 01/01/2001, Page 978
- Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/1997, Page 765
- Entertainment Weekly, 12/21/2007, Page 83
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/1996, Page 296
- Kirkus Review - Children, 03/01/1996, Page 379
- Kliatt, 11/01/2007, Page 4
- Library Journal, 02/15/1996, Page 176
- New York Review of Books, 03/25/2004, Page 25
- New York Times, 05/19/1996, Page 34
- Newsweek, 10/06/2008, Page 8
- People Weekly, 03/05/2012, Page 58
- Publishers Weekly, 02/19/1996, Page 0
- School Library Journal, 04/01/1996, Page 158
- Time, 12/10/2007, Page 86
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