His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780440418320)

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
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

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Author: Philip Pullman
ISBN-10: 0440418321
ISBN-13: 9780440418320
Publisher: Yearling Books
Language: English
Published: 05/22/2001
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.73h x 5.25w x 0.97d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 19
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 15085 / Golden Compass


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Children's Advance 05/01/2001 pg. 79