Together with her own daemon Pantalaimon, Lyra begins her journey to the Arctic, armed with an ‘alethiometer’ or a ‘truth-teller’ to find her friend Roger, kidnapped by the ‘Gobblers’ and to free Lord Asriel who has been imprisoned for conducting experiments on Dust who he believes holds the key to travel to parallel universes. Coulter arrives at Oxford to take Lyra away and to prune her into a fine lady. Her wish is about to come true when children (including Lyra’s playmate Roger) start disappearing and the exotic Mrs. Intrigued by ‘Dust’ she wishes to know more about it. Lyra is an orphan and leads a carefree life until she overhears a conversation about ‘Dust’. What more is needed to pique your interest in this one? Northern Lights by Philip Pullman The daemon can take any form until its human counterpart attains puberty, after which it becomes the animal it chooses to be. How wonderful is that? You have a friend for life who knows all your thoughts and with whom you can talk about anything in the world. The difference being that every person’s soul is a living animal companion or ‘daemon’ who accompanies him/her everywhere. Northern Lights tells the story of Lyra Belacqua who lives in Jordan college, Oxford in a world very much like our own. Northern Lights is the first in the trilogy His Dark Materials. We meet a young girl named, Lyra Belacqua, who journeys to the Northern Lights to fulfill an old prophesy. I'd rate it 4.5 out of five.Also known as The Golden Compass in the States, this is one amazing book set in a world where the human soul resides outside the body as a ‘daemon’ (in the shape of an animal). To me, it was perfect, although the words 'passionate' and 'passionately' are really over-used. It is a fantastic book for anyone over 10-years-old, girl or boy, who loves adventure and science fiction books. The plot is brilliant: Pullman somehow managed to make the story clear so that you can understand, but at the same time sort of 'misty', and everything happens as if you were in some kind of dream. The book can make you thrill and marvel, and it tells a brilliant tale. This is the most beautifully-written story I've read. Lyra embarks on a dangerous journey which will take her much further than the Northern Lights, even beyond her own world. Her wish is about to come true: children (including Lyra' s playmate Roger) start disappearing just as the hypnotizing and beautiful Mrs Coulter appears. after overhearing it, Lyra wants to know everything about those strange particles which affect adults more than children.

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