The golden compass / Philip Pullman.
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.
Item details
- ISBN: 0440418321
- ISBN: 9780440418320
- ISBN: 9781439567944
- ISBN: 1439567948
- ISBN: 9780440238133
- ISBN: 0440238137
- Physical Description: 399 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Dell Yearling, 2001.
- Copyright: ©1995
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Target Audience Note: | Interest age level : Ages 10-17. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 7.1 19 SD Quiz 15085 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available. Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.1 19.0 15085. Reading Counts RC 6-8 6.7 24 Quiz: 04608 Guided reading level: Z. |
Awards Note: | Carnegie Medal, 1995. |
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