| His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) Contributor(s): Pullman, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679879242 ISBN-13: 9780679879244 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 1996 Annotation: 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. Click for more in this series: His Dark Materials (Hardcover) |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy - Epic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95033397 |
| Age Level: 12-17 |
| Grade Level: 7-12 |
| Lexile Measure: 930(Not Available) |
| Series: His Dark Materials (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 5.87" W x 8.56" L (1.21 lbs) 416 pages |
| Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
| Awards: Hugo Award, Nominee, Dramatic Presentation, 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Award, Nominee, Children's, 1997 |
| Review Citations: Booklist 03/01/1996 pg. 1179 Library Journal 02/15/1996 pg. 176 School Library Journal 04/01/1996 pg. 158 New York Times 05/19/1996 pg. 34 Kirkus Review - Children 03/01/1996 pg. 379 ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/1997 pg. 1294 ALA Notable Children's Books 01/01/1997 pg. 1305 Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1996 pg. 296 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/1997 pg. 765 Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 978 New York Review of Books 03/25/2004 pg. 25 Publishers Weekly 02/19/1996 Newsweek 12/03/2007 pg. 57 Kliatt 11/01/2007 pg. 4 Time 12/10/2007 pg. 86 Entertainment Weekly 12/14/2007 pg. 30 Entertainment Weekly 12/21/2007 pg. 83 Newsweek 10/06/2008 pg. 8 People Weekly 03/05/2012 pg. 58 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 15085 Reading Level: 7.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time." Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach. Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other... A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. A #1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction Published in 40 Countries Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years. --The Washington Post Very grand indeed. --The New York Times Pullman is quite possibly a genius. --Newsweek Don't miss Philip Pullman's epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials ** THE BOOK OF DUST ** La Belle Sauvage The Secret Commonwealth |
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