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1995
Northern Lights
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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.
Adventure
Fantasy
Children
Fiction
Reading level-grade 11
Reading level-grade 10
Reading level-grade 12
Large type books
novela juvenil
english fantasy fiction
fantasy fiction
Spanish language materials
novela fantástica
children's stories, english
Fiction, general
Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
imaginary places
ficción juvenil
adventure stories
JUVENILE FICTION
Mädchen
open library staff picks
mythical animals
lugares imaginarios
children's fiction
General
Romans
Great britain, fiction
orphans
Livres en gros caractères
Large print books
Action & Adventure
Amitié
Traducciones al español
Survival, fiction
Young adult fiction
Kidnapping
Missing persons
Science
Witches
Good and evil
Quests (Expeditions)
JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
Children: Grades 4-6
Spanish: Adult Fiction
Magic
Uncles
Missing persons -- Fiction
Personas desaparecidas
Niños
Teachers, fiction
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
Fantasy - General
Science fiction, fantasy, horror
Action & Adventure - General
Experiments
Novela fantástica inglesa
Magie
MAGIA
Bien y mal
Kidnapping, fiction
Arctic regions, fiction
Geographical myths
Imaginärer Schauplatz
Kind
Merveilleux
JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure
Missing persons -- Experiments
Zigeuner
Enlevement
Familiars (Spirits)
Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
Artic regions
Entführung
Belacqua, lyra (fictitious character), fiction
JUVENILE FICTION -- Social Themes -- Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
Experimentos
skjønnlitteratur
Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)
Arctic Regions
Teenage fiction
Dämon
Teens
Will Parry (Fictitious character)
Belacqua, Lyra (Personaje literario)
Belacqua, Lyra (Fictitious character)
Kidnapping -- Juvenile fiction
Personnes disparues
Belacqua, Lyra (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction
Political theology
The Marvelous
Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
Spanish language, readers
Lyra Belacqua (Fictitious character)
Carnegie Medal
Arctic regions -- Juvenile fiction
Children's Books - Young Adult
Children's 12-Up - Fiction - Fantasy
Parry, Will (Personaje literario)
Spanish language, juvenile literature
Polar bears
Secuestro
Missing persons -- Experiments -- Juvenile fiction
Demonology
Children and adults
Menschenversuch
