The Northern Lights

By Philip Pullman

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ISBN: 9780590660549
Themes: young adult Fiction Fantasy Friendship

Preface

Lyra is a young girl living in Oxford. Only the Oxford she lives in is in another world that differs from ours in one very special way: every human in this world has something called a ‘daemon’. Their daemon takes the form of an animal and reflects their inner personality. It is an outer manifest of their soul.

Lyra and her friends have heard rumours of children going missing in Oxford and other places around the country. Rumours about a group of people called The Gobblers. Lyra and her friends aren’t really concerned though and make a game of playing Gobblers.

All that changes when someone they know goes missing. Despite having an ongoing feud with the Gyptian families who frequent Oxford, Lyra and the others are concerned when one of their children goes missing, Ma Costa’s son Billy. Lyra’s concern grows though when she realises that she hasn’t seen Roger since that morning.

Lyra decides she needs to find and rescue Roger. Her journey takes her North and leads her to many new friends among the Gyptians, the witches and the armoured bears.