The golden compass
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 22 cm.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Status
Roosevelt Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YOUNG ADULT PULLMAN His Dark Materials #1
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
UPC
9780679879244
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 7.1, 19 Points

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Originally published as: Northern lights.
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Sequel: The subtle knife.
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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. In this first book of a fantasy trilogy, young Lyre & her alter ego, a protective animal named Pantalaimon, escape from the child-stealing Gobblers & join a group heading north to rescue a band of missing children. 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Pullman, P. (1996). The golden compass . Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Pullman, Philip, 1946-. 1996. The Golden Compass. Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Pullman, Philip, 1946-. The Golden Compass Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.

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