The golden compass
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, 1996.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 22 cm.
Status
Southside - Children's Juvenile
Fiction Pullman, P
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, 1996.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 7.1, 19 Points
Lexile measure
930

Notes

General Note
Originally published as: Northern lights.
General Note
Prequel: Once upon a time in the North.
General Note
Sequel: The subtle knife.
Description
The Golden Compass forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a world like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set partly in the world we know. The third moves between many worlds. In The Golden Compass, readers meet for the first time 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford, England. It quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own -- nor is her world. In Lyra's world, everyone has a personal dæmon, a lifelong animal familiar. This is a world in which science, theology and magic are closely intertwined. These ideas are of little concern to Lyra, who at the outset of the story, spends most of her time with her friend Roger, a kitchen boy. Together, they share a carefree existence scampering across the roofs of the college, racing through the streets of Oxford, or waging war with the other children in town. But that life changes forever when Lyra and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, prevent an assassination attempt on her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. It is at this time that children mysteriously began to disappear. Children, and only the children, are vanishing at the hands of what become known as the "Gobblers." Who the Gobblers are and what they want is unknown, but soon, children from far and wide are disappearing with out a trace, even Lyra's good friend, Roger. - Publisher.
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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.
Target Audience
930L,Lexile
Target Audience
930,Lexile.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,7.1,19,15085.
Study Program Information
Reading Counts RC:,Z:,6.7 L930:,24.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader,Grades 9-12,7.1,19,SD,Quiz 15085,English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,7.1,19.0,15085.
Awards
Carnegie Medal, 1995

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