The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials

The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials***COMING SOON A NEW HBO SERIES, HIS DARK MATERIALS, BASED ON PULLMAN'S BOOKS*** 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

***COMING SOON A NEW HBO SERIES, HIS DARK MATERIALS, BASED ON PULLMAN'S BOOKS***

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

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 04/16/1996
ISBN: 9780679879244
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.87w x 1.31d
Award: Hugo Award - Nominee
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee

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