The golden compass /
Philip Pullman.
- 399 pages ; 22 cm.
- His dark materials ; bk. 1 .
Originally published as: Northern lights.
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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.